¹² Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot ^(A)dwelt in the cities of the plain and ^(B)pitched his tent even as far as Sodom. ¹³ But the men of Sodom ^(C)were exceedingly wicked and ^(D)sinful against the Lord.

Old and New Apostates

⁵ But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that ^(A)the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. ⁶ And the angels who did not keep their ^[a]proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; ⁷ as ^(B)Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the ^[b]vengeance of eternal fire.