³ And ^(A)in their greed they will exploit you ^(B)with false words. ^(C)Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

⁴ For if God did not spare ^(D)angels when they sinned, but ^(E)cast them into hell^[a] and committed them to chains^[b] of gloomy darkness ^(F)to be kept until the judgment; ⁵ if he did not spare the ancient world, but ^(G)preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought ^(H)a flood upon the world of the ungodly; ⁶ if by ^(I)turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, ^(J)making them an example of ^(K)what is going to happen to the ungodly;^{[c] 7} and ^(L)if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked ⁸ (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, ^(M)he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); ⁹ then ^(N)the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials,^[d] and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,