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