⁵ Now I want to remind you, even though you are fully aware of these things, that the Lord who once saved his people from the land of Egypt later destroyed those who did not believe. ⁶ He has also held in eternal chains those angels who did not keep their own position but abandoned their assigned place. They are held in deepest darkness for judgment on the great day.^{[a] 7} Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities near them, which like them committed sexual sins and pursued homosexual activities,^[b] serve as an example of the punishment of eternal fire.