2 Peter 2:9 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

8 For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness, those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Now if [all these things are true, then be sure] the Lord knows how to rescue the godly out of temptations and trials, and how to keep the ungodly under chastisement until the day of judgment and doom,

American Standard Version (1901)

the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgment;

Common English Bible

These things show that the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from their trials, and how to keep the unrighteous for punishment on the Judgment Day.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Thus, the Lord knows how to rescue the pious from trials, and how to reserve the iniquitous for torments on the day of judgment;

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly from temptation, but to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be tormented.

2 Peter 2:9 Cross References

Job 21:30

Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:

Job 5:19

4 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace, and visiting thy beauty thou shalt not sin.

Psalm 12:1

The wicked walk round about: according to thy highness, thou best multiplied the children of men.

Psalm 32:6

Give praise to the Lord on the harp; sing to him with the psaltery, the instrument of ten strings.

Psalm 37:33

0 And the Lord will help them and deliver them : and he will rescue them from the wicked, and save them, because they have hoped in him.

Psalm 4:3

Hearken to the voice of my prayer, O my King and my God.

Proverbs 12:13

0 Deceit is in the heart of them that think evil things: but joy followeth them that take counsels of peace.

Proverbs 16:4

1 Weight and balance are judgments of the Lord: and his work all the weights of the bag.

Matthew 10:15

3 And when they shall persecute you in this city, flee into another. Amen I say to you, you shall not finish all the cities of Israel, till the Son of man come.

Matthew 6:13

1 For where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also.

Romans 2:5

3 For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

1 Corinthians 10:13

2 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy ? Are we stronger than he? All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient.

2 Timothy 3:12

And will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables.

Titus 2:14

It is a faithful saying: and these things I will have thee affirm constantly: that they, who believe in God, may be careful to excel in good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

2 Peter 2:4

3 Receiving the reward of their injustice, counting for a pleasure the delights of a day: stains and spots, sporting themselves to excess, rioting in their feasts with you:

2 Peter 3:7

6 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

Jude 1:6

5 To execute judgment upon all, and to reprove all the ungodly for all the works of their ungodliness, whereby they have done ungodly, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against God.

Revelation 3:10

9 Such as I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore, and do penance.

1 Samuel 29:10

David and the people that were with him, lifted up their voices, and wept till they had no more tears.