For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;

then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,

whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord.

But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.