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2 Peter 2:4-10
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4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but held them captive in Tartarus with chains of darkness and handed them over to be kept for judgment, 5 and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a proclaimer of righteousness, and seven others[a] when he[b] brought a flood on the world of the ungodly, 6 and condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes, having appointed them as an example for those who are going to be ungodly, 7 and rescued righteous Lot, worn down by the way of life of lawless persons in licentiousness 8 (for that righteous man, as he[c] lived among them day after day, was tormenting his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he was seeing and hearing), 9 then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to reserve the unrighteous to be punished at[d] the day of judgment, 10 and especially those who go after the flesh in defiling lust[e] and who despise authority.

Bold and arrogant, they do not tremble in awe as they[f] blaspheme majestic beings,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:5 Literally “eighth”
  2. 2 Peter 2:5 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“brought”) which is understood as temporal
  3. 2 Peter 2:8 Here “as” is supplied as a component of the participle (“lived”) which is understood as temporal
  4. 2 Peter 2:9 Or “until”
  5. 2 Peter 2:10 Literally “in lust of defilement,” translated here as an attributive genitive
  6. 2 Peter 2:10 Here “as” is supplied as a component of the participle (“blaspheme”) which is understood as temporal
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