2 Peter 2:4–11

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, ¹⁰and especially ^fthose who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. ^gThey are presumptuous, self-willed. They are not afraid to speak evil of ³dignitaries, ¹¹whereas ^hangels, who are greater in power and might, do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord.