2 Peter 2:1–9

Destructive Doctrines

2But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be ^afalse teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. ²And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. ³By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction ¹does not slumber.

Doom of False Teachers

⁴For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to ²hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; ⁵and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; ⁶and turning the cities of ^bSodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; ⁷and ^cdelivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked ⁸(for that righteous man, dwelling among them, ^dtormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)—⁹then ^ethe Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment,