²⁰ Then the Lord said, ‘The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is immense, and their sin is extremely serious.

⁴⁹ Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters had pride, plenty of food,^(A) and comfortable security, but didn’t support^[a] the poor and needy.

⁷ and if he rescued righteous Lot,^(A) distressed by the depraved behaviour of the immoral ⁸ (for as that righteous man lived among them day by day, his righteous soul was tormented by the lawless deeds he saw and heard^(B)) –