...argument. I take your good will for the deed. 2 Peter 2: 9, is your next text. " The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve...unjust unto the day of judgment, to be punished." In reply to what you have advanced, my first remark is — you assume at the' very outset the question...

...covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. (2,3.) But the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve...the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: but chiefly them, that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness. (9, 10.) Spots they are and...

...righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly," then, indeed, he " knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve...the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished." Here is the grand lever of Scripture motives ; and the fulcrum on which it rests is placed far beyond...

...shall he appear the second time, without sin, unto salvation." 2 Pet. II. 9, " The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations. and to reserve...the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished." From the foregoing scriptures, and many others, it appears, that there is a time appointed when God...

...to day with their unlawful deeds ;) the Lord knoweth how to deliver the 9 godly out of temptation, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished : but chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the 10 lust of uncleanness, and despise government....

...dwells on the enormity of this sin. " The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished. But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government, presumptuous...

...fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.' And again in his second epistle ; ' The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve...the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished ; but chiefly them that walk after the flesh, in the lust of uncleanness.' These are very plain and...

...St. 2 Pet. n. 29. Peter will resolve all doubt; God knoweth how to deliver the godly out of trials, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished. All scores will be fully quitted by the execution of Matt. xxv. that sentence pronounced by our Judge...

...and hearing vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds.) The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust to the day of judgment to be punished;" 2 Pet. ii.6— 9. And now who is it that was troublesome, and...

...traitors, heady, high-minded ;'* that is the characteristic note. So St. Peter : ' The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve...the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished : but chiefly them that walk after the flesh * 2 Tim. iii. 1, Sec. in the lust of uncleanness, and...