2 Peter 2:3-9
English Standard Version
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,
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- 2 Peter 2:4 Greek Tartarus
- 2 Peter 2:4 Some manuscripts pits
- 2 Peter 2:6 Some manuscripts an example to those who were to be ungodly
- 2 Peter 2:9 Or temptations
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