Genesis 19:2

Go on your ways, and so this will be no hinderance to your occasions. We will abide in the street all night: this was no untruth, but really intended by them in the present state of things, and upon supposition that Lot should press them no further; but they also intended, if Lot was earnest with them, to comply with him. The first denial was but decent, and an act of civility, and in them it was a design to discover Lot's piety and hospitality, and to manifest the great difference between him and the barbarous Sodomites, and the reason and justice of Lot's deliverance, and their destruction.