2  and many shall follow their dissolute ways, through whom the way of the truth shall be blasphemed.

3  And through covetousness, with well-turned words, will they make merchandise of you: for whom judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction slumbers not. 4  For if God spared not the angels who had sinned, but having cast them down to the deepest pit of gloom has delivered them to chains of darkness to be kept for judgment; 5  and spared not the old world, but preserved Noe, the eighth, a preacher of righteousness, having brought in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6  and having reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha to ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, setting them as an example to those that should afterwards live an ungodly life;

7  and saved righteous Lot, distressed with the abandoned conversation of the godless, 8  (for the righteous man through seeing and hearing, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul day after day with their lawless works,) 9  the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of trial, and to keep the unjust to the day of judgment to be punished;