2 Peter 2:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

2 Peter 2:7 —

Old words in this verse

conversation: — way of life, conduct.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 19:16
And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
Genesis 19:29
And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
Genesis 19:7-8
And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. …
1 Corinthians 10:13
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Jeremiah 23:9
Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-9)

When God sends destruction on the ungodly, he commands deliverance for the righteous; and, if he rain fire and brimstone on the wicked, he will cover the head of the just, and they shall be hid in the day of his anger. This we have an instance of in his preserving Lot. Here observe, 1. The character given of Lot; he is called a just man; this he was as to the generally prevailing bent of his heart…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. just--righteous. filthy conversation--literally, “behavior in licentiousness” (Ge 19:5). the wicked--Greek, “lawless”: who set at defiance the laws of nature, as well as man and God. The Lord reminds us of Lot’s faithfulness, but not of his sin in the cave: so in Rahab’s case.