“ Certainly if God did not hold back from punishing the angels that sinned, but, by throwing them into Tartarus, delivered them to pits of dense darkness to be reserved for judgment; and 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; and he delivered righteous Lot, who was greatly distressed by the indulgence of the law - defying people in loose conduct ​ — for that righteous man by what he saw and heard while dwelling among them from day to day was tormenting his righteous soul by reason of their lawless deeds — ​ Jehovah knows how to deliver people of godly devotion out of trial, but to reserve unrighteous people for the day of judgment to be cut off, especially, however, those who go on after flesh with the desire to defile it and who look down on lordship. ”
और धर्मी लूत को जो अधर्मियों के अशुद्ध चाल - चलन से बहुत दुःखी था, छुटकारा दिया — क्योंकि वह धर्मी उन के बीच में रहते हुए और उन के अधर्म के कामों को देख - देखकर और सुन - सुनकर, हर दिन अपने सच्चे मन को पीड़ित करता था — तो यहोवा ईश्‍वरीय भक्‍ति रखनेवालों को परीक्षा में से निकाल लेना और अधर्मियों को नाश होने के लिए न्याय के दिन तक दण्ड की दशा में रखना जानते हैं ।