2 Peter 2:4–11

⁴For if God didn’t spare ^rthe angels who sinned but threw them down into Tartarus ^stand delivered them to be kept in chains ^uof darkness until judgment; ^v5and if He didn’t spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, ^wa preacher of righteousness, and seven others, ^xywhen He brought a flood on the world of the ungodly; ⁶and if He reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah ^zto ashes and condemned them to ruin, ^amaking them an example to those who were going to be ungodly; ^bc7and if He rescued righteous Lot, ^ddistressed by the unrestrained behavior of the immoral ⁸(for as he lived among them, that righteous man tormented himself day by day with the lawless deeds he saw and heard ^e)— ⁹then the Lord knows how to rescue ^fthe godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, ^g10especially those who follow the polluting desires of the flesh and despise authority. ^h

Bold, arrogant people! They do not tremble when they blaspheme the glorious ones; ¹¹however, angels, who are greater in might and power, do not bring a slanderous charge against them before the Lord. ⁱ