Regarding such acts of punishment by God, the apostle Peter wrote: “He did not hold back from punishing an ancient world, but kept Noah, a preacher of righteousness, safe with seven others when he brought a deluge upon a world of ungodly people; and by reducing the cities Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them, setting a pattern for ungodly persons of things to come. ” ​ — 2 Peter 2: 5, 6.
और सदोम और अमोराह के नगरों को विनाश का ऐसा दण्ड दिया, कि उन्हें भस्म करके राख में मिला दिया ताकि वे आनेवाले भक्‍तिहीन लोगों की शिक्षा के लिये एक दृष्टान्त बनें । ” — 2 पतरस 2: 5, 6.