² Many will follow their depraved conduct^(A) and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. ³ In their greed^(B) these teachers will exploit you^(C) with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

⁴ For if God did not spare angels when they sinned,^(D) but sent them to hell,^[a] putting them in chains of darkness^[b] to be held for judgment;^(E)