They will exploit(A) you in their greed(B) with deceptive words. Their condemnation,(C) pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.

For if God didn’t spare(D) the angels who sinned but threw them down into Tartarus[a](E) and delivered them to be kept in chains[b] of darkness until judgment;(F) and if He didn’t spare the ancient world, but protected Noah,(G) a preacher of righteousness, and seven others,[c](H) when He brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:4 = Gk name for a place of divine punishment in the underworld.
  2. 2 Peter 2:4 Other mss read in pits
  3. 2 Peter 2:5 Lit righteousness, as the eighth

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