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For God did not spare angels when they sinned, but threw them into Sheol.[a] He put them in chains of gloomy darkness, to be held until the judgment. [b] He did not spare the ancient world. He preserved only Noah, a proclaimer of righteousness, along with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly. He devastated the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, reducing them to ashes[c]—making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly.

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  1. 2 Peter 2:4 Lit. hold captive in Tartarus, the deepest place of Hades or hell.
  2. 2 Peter 2:5 cf. Ezek. 26:20; Judah 6.
  3. 2 Peter 2:6 cf. Gen. 19:24.

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned,(A) but sent them to hell,[a] putting them in chains of darkness[b] to be held for judgment;(B) if he did not spare the ancient world(C) when he brought the flood on its ungodly people,(D) but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;(E) if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes,(F) and made them an example(G) of what is going to happen to the ungodly;(H)

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  1. 2 Peter 2:4 Greek Tartarus
  2. 2 Peter 2:4 Some manuscripts in gloomy dungeons