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# Connecting Statement:
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Verses 6-8 are Peter's third example of a time that God punished sinners. Again, there was a righteous man whom God did not punish.
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# and if he reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes
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"and if God burned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah with fire until only ashes remained"
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# condemned them to destruction
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Here the word "them" refers to Sodom and Gomorrah and the people who lived in them.
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# as an example of what is to happen to the ungodly
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Sodom and Gomorrah serve as an example and a warning of what will happen to others who disobey God.
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