⁴For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but held them captive in Tartarus with chains of darkness and handed them over to be kept for judgment, ⁵and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a proclaimer of righteousness, and seven others^b when he^* brought a flood on the world of the ungodly, ⁶and condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes, having appointed them as an example for those who are going to be ungodly, ⁷and rescued righteous Lot, worn down by the way of life of lawless persons in licentiousness ⁸(for that righteous man, as he^* lived among them day after day, was tormenting his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he was seeing and hearing), ⁹then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to reserve the unrighteous to be punished at^c the day of judgment, ¹⁰and especially those who go after the flesh in defiling lust^d and who despise authority.

Bold and arrogant, they do not tremble in awe as they^* blaspheme majestic beings,

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Footnotes

bLiterally “eighth”
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“brought”) which is understood as temporal
*Here “as” is supplied as a component of the participle (“lived”) which is understood as temporal
cOr “until”
dLiterally “in lust of defilement,” translated here as an attributive genitive
*Here “as” is supplied as a component of the participle (“blaspheme”) which is understood as temporal