2 Peter 2:1–10

The Rise of False Prophets

¹But ^afalse prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be ^bfalse teachers ^camong you, who will ^dsecretly introduce ^edestructive heresies, even ^fdenying the ^gMaster who ^hbought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.

²And many will follow their ^asensuality, and because of them ^bthe way of the truth will be ^cmaligned.

³And in their ^agreed they will ^bexploit you with ^cfalse words, ^dtheir judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

⁴For ^aif God did not spare angels who sinned, but cast them into the ¹pit and ^bdelivered them to chains of darkness, being kept for judgment;

⁵and did not spare ^athe ancient world, but preserved ^bNoah, a ¹preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a ^cflood upon the world of the ungodly;

⁶and if He ^acondemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an ^bexample to those who would ^clive ungodly lives thereafter;

⁷and if He ^arescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the ^bsensual conduct of ^cunprincipled men

⁸(for by what he saw and heard that ^arighteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds),

^9athen the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from ¹trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the ^bday of judgment,

¹⁰and especially those who ^ago after the flesh in its corrupt lust and ^bdespise authority.

Daring, ^cself-willed, they do not tremble when they ^dblaspheme ¹glorious ones,