2 Peter 2:4-10

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁴ For if God didn’t spare^(A) the angels who sinned but threw them down into Tartarus^[a](B) and delivered them to be kept in chains^[b] of darkness until judgment;^{(C) 5} and if He didn’t spare the ancient world, but protected Noah,^(D) a preacher of righteousness, and seven others,^[c](E) when He brought a flood on the world of the ungodly; ⁶ and if He reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah^(F) to ashes and condemned them to ruin,^[d] making them an example to those who were going to be ungodly;^{[e](G) 7} and if He rescued righteous Lot,^(H) distressed by the unrestrained behavior of the immoral ⁸ (for as he lived among them, that righteous man tormented himself day by day with the lawless deeds he saw and heard^(I))— ⁹ then the Lord knows how to rescue^(J) the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,^{(K) 10} especially those who follow the polluting desires of the flesh and despise authority.^(L)

Bold, arrogant people! They do not tremble when they blaspheme the glorious ones;