For if God didn’t spare(A) the angels who sinned but threw them down into Tartarus[a](B) and delivered them to be kept in chains[b] of darkness until judgment;(C) and if He didn’t spare the ancient world, but protected Noah,(D) a preacher of righteousness, and seven others,[c](E) when He brought a flood on the world of the ungodly; and if He reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah(F) to ashes and condemned them to ruin,[d] making them an example to those who were going to be ungodly;[e](G)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:4 = Gk name for a place of divine punishment in the underworld.
  2. 2 Peter 2:4 Other mss read in pits
  3. 2 Peter 2:5 Lit righteousness, as the eighth
  4. 2 Peter 2:6 Other mss omit to ruin
  5. 2 Peter 2:6 Other mss read an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly

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