⁴ For ^(A)if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into ^[a]hell and ^(B)committed them to ^[b]pits of darkness, held for judgment; ⁵ and did not spare ^(C)the ancient world, but protected ^(D)Noah, a ^[c]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 ^[d]of what is coming for the ^(H)ungodly; ⁷ and if He ^(I)rescued righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the ^(J)perverted conduct of ^[e](K)unscrupulous people 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 ^[f]a trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the ^(N)day of judgment, ¹⁰ and especially those who ^[g](O)indulge the flesh in its corrupt passion, and ^(P)despise ^[h]authority.

^[i]Reckless, ^(Q)self-centered, they ^(R)speak abusively of angelic ^[j]majesties without trembling,