2 Peter 2:4–10

⁴For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned but cast them into hell and committed them to chainsⁱ of deepest darkness to be kept until the judgment;^{* 5}and if he did not spare the ancient world, even though he saved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;^{* 6}and if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to destruction^j and made them an example of what is coming to the ungodly;^{k 7}and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man greatly distressed by the debauchery of the lawless^{* 8}(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by their lawless deeds that he saw and heard), ⁹then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial and to keep the unrighteous until the day of judgment, when they will be punished^{* 10}—especially those who indulge their flesh in depraved lust and who despise authority.

Bold and willful, they are not afraid to slander the glorious ones,^l*