3 By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction1 does not slumber.
Doom of False Teachers
4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to1 hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
5 and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, oneof eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;
6 and turning the cities of aSodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;
7 and adelivered righteous Lot, whowas oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked
8 (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, atormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)—
9thenathe Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment,
10 and especially athose who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. bTheyare presumptuous, self-willed. They are not afraid to speak evil of1 dignitaries,
The ungodly are sinners, and God, the just Judge, judged according to His law. Unable to abide their rebellion, He wiped them out, yet He wanted to save these people so they could be resurrected and given an opportunity for salvation at a better time. God cannot tolerate sin; He loves righteousness and the righteous. He saved only Noah, the "preacher of righteousness," and his family from the Flood. The Greek noun dikaiosuné (Strong's 1343), always translated "righteousness," comes from the adjective dikaios (Strong's 1342), meaning righteous, upright, just, innocent, and guiltless, the same word describing God in Revelation. Only the righteous Judge knows how to deliver His people from sin, and He will punish the unjust.
2 Peter 2:5
The ungodly are sinners. God, being the just God that He is, judged according to His law. He wanted to save these people so that they could be resurrected and given an opportunity for salvation at a better time. Not being able to abide their rebellion, He wiped them out because they were sinners, ungodly, breaking His law.
The ungodly are sinners, and God, the just Judge, judged according to His law. Unable to abide their rebellion, He wiped them out, yet He wanted to save these people so they could be resurrected and given an opportunity for salvation at a better time. God cannot tolerate sin; He loves righteousness and the righteous. He saved only Noah, the "preacher of righteousness," and his family from the Flood. The Greek noun dikaiosuné (Strong's 1343), always translated "righteousness," comes from the adjective dikaios (Strong's 1342), meaning righteous, upright, just, innocent, and guiltless, the same word describing God in Revelation. Only the righteous Judge knows how to deliver His people from sin, and He will punish the unjust.