But after further threats they let them go, as they could find no way to punish them, on account of the people, who were all giving honor to God for what had happened,

and am prepared to punish any trace of disobedience when you have made your obedience perfectly clear.

Marriage should be respected by everyone, and the marriage relation kept sacred, for vicious and immoral people God will punish.

and to governors, as sent by him to punish evil-doers, and to encourage those who do right.

and saved the upright Lot who was so distressed by the immoral conduct of unprincipled men??8 for as long as that upright man lived among them, day after day his upright soul was tormented by what he saw and heard of their lawless actions??9 then the Lord knows how to rescue God-fearing people from trial and to punish wrongdoers while they are being kept for the Day of Judgment,