³ In their greed^(A) these teachers will exploit you^(B) 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,^(C) but sent them to hell,^[a] putting them in chains of darkness^[b] to be held for judgment;^{(D) 5} if he did not spare the ancient world^(E) when he brought the flood on its ungodly people,^(F) but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;^(G)