² And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth ^(A)will be blasphemed. ³ And ^(B)in their greed they will exploit you ^(C)with false words. ^(D)Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

⁴ For if God did not spare ^(E)angels when they sinned, but ^(F)cast them into hell^[a] and committed them to chains^[b] of gloomy darkness ^(G)to be kept until the judgment;

⁹ then ^(A)the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials,^[a] and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,