⁷ and if He ^(A)rescued righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the ^(B)perverted conduct of ^[a](C)unscrupulous people ⁸ (for by what he saw and heard that ^(D)righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds), ^9 (E)then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from ^[b]a trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the ^(F)day of judgment,