5. and if He did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6. and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, making them an example to those afterward who would live ungodly lives;
7. and if He delivered righteous Lot, who was distressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked
8. (for that righteous man lived among them, and what he saw and heard of their lawless deeds tormented his righteous soul day after day);