2 Peter 2:1-5

Christian Standard Bible

The Judgment of False Teachers

2 There were indeed false prophets^(A) among the people, just as there will be false teachers^(B) among you. They will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought^(C) them, and will bring swift destruction on themselves. ² Many will follow their depraved ways, and the way of truth will be maligned because of them.^{(D) 3} They will exploit^(E) you in their greed^(F) with made-up stories. Their condemnation,^(G) pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.

⁴ For if God didn’t spare^(H) the angels who sinned but cast them into hell^[a](I) and delivered them in chains^[b] of utter darkness to be kept for judgment;^{(J) 5} and if he didn’t spare the ancient world, but protected Noah,^(K) a preacher of righteousness, and seven others,^[c](L) when he brought the flood on the world of the ungodly;