¹¹ These things happened to them to serve as an example, and they were written down to instruct us, on whom the ends of the ages have come.^(A)

Judgment on False Teachers

⁵ Now I desire to remind you, though you are fully informed, once and for all, that Jesus, who saved^[a] a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.^{(A) 6} And the angels who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deepest darkness for the judgment of the great day.^{(B) 7} Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which, in the same manner as they, indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural lust,^[b] serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.^(C)

⁶ Now these things occurred as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil as they did.^(A)

⁵¹ Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was obedient to them, and his mother treasured all these things in her heart.^(A)

¹⁹ and Mary treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart.^(A)

²¹ Then all the men of the town shall stone him to death. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.^(A)