2 Peter 2:3-10
New American Standard Bible 1995
3 and in their (A)greed they will (B)exploit you with (C)false words; (D)their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
4 For (E)if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and (F)committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment; 5 and did not spare (G)the ancient world, but preserved (H)Noah, a [a]preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a (I)flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 and if He (J)condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an (K)example to those who would (L)live ungodly lives thereafter; 7 and if He (M)rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the (N)sensual conduct of (O)unprincipled men 8 (for by what he saw and heard that (P)righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds), 9 (Q)then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from [b]temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the (R)day of judgment, 10 and especially those who [c](S)indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and (T)despise authority.
Daring, (U)self-willed, they do not tremble when they (V)revile angelic [d]majesties,
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- 2 Peter 2:5 Or herald
- 2 Peter 2:9 Lit trial; or temptation
- 2 Peter 2:10 Lit go after
- 2 Peter 2:10 Lit glories
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