⁴ For ^(A)if God did not spare angels who sinned, but cast them into the ^[a]pit and ^(B)delivered them to chains of darkness, being kept for judgment; ⁵ and did not spare ^(C)the ancient world, but preserved ^(D)Noah, a ^[b]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 ^[c]trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the ^(N)day of judgment, ¹⁰ and especially those who ^(O)go after the flesh in its corrupt lust and ^(P)despise authority.

Daring, ^(Q)self-willed, they do not tremble when they ^(R)blaspheme ^[d]glorious ones,