For 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, and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a proclaimer of righteousness, and seven others[a] when he[b] brought a flood on the world of the ungodly, and 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,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:5 Literally “eighth”
  2. 2 Peter 2:5 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“brought”) which is understood as temporal