2 Peter 2:4-14

English Standard Version

⁴ For if God did not spare ^(A)angels when they sinned, but ^(B)cast them into hell^[a] and committed them to chains^[b] of gloomy darkness ^(C)to be kept until the judgment; ⁵ if he did not spare the ancient world, but ^(D)preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought ^(E)a flood upon the world of the ungodly; ⁶ if by ^(F)turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, ^(G)making them an example of ^(H)what is going to happen to the ungodly;^{[c] 7} and ^(I)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, ^(J)he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); ⁹ then ^(K)the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials,^[d] and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, ¹⁰ and especially ^(L)those who indulge^[e] in the lust of defiling passion and ^(M)despise authority.

Bold and willful, they do not tremble ^(N)as they blaspheme the glorious ones, ^11 (O)whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord. ^12 (P)But these, like irrational animals, ^(Q)creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction, ¹³ suffering wrong as ^(R)the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure ^(S)to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions,^[f] while ^(T)they feast with you. ¹⁴ They have eyes full of adultery,^{[g] (U)}insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts ^(V)trained in greed. ^(W)Accursed children!