Growth in Christian Virtue

Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

and did not spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

and if He rescued righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the perverted conduct of unscrupulous people

(for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds),

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment handed on to them.