Regarding such acts of punishment by God, the apostle Peter wrote: “He did not hold back from punishing an ancient world, but kept Noah, a preacher of righteousness, safe with seven others when he brought a deluge upon a world of ungodly people; and by reducing the cities Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them, setting a pattern for ungodly persons of things to come. ” ​ — 2 Peter 2: 5, 6.
Tāpat viņš nosodīja Sodomas un Gomoras pilsētas, pārvērzdams tās pelnos un iznīcinādams, atstājot tā biedinošu piemēru visiem, kas grib grēkot. ”