¹⁹ in which^[a] he went and ^(A)proclaimed^[b] to the spirits in prison, ²⁰ because^[c] they formerly did not obey, ^(B)when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, ^(C)while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, ^(D)eight persons, were brought safely through water.

⁴ For if God did not spare ^(A)angels when they sinned, but ^(B)cast them into hell^[a] and committed them to chains^[b] of gloomy darkness ^(C)to be kept until the judgment; ⁵ if he did not spare the ancient world, but ^(D)preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought ^(E)a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

⁶ And ^(A)the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—