³ They will exploit^(A) you in their greed^(B) with deceptive words. Their condemnation,^(C) pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.

⁴ For if God didn’t spare^(D) the angels who sinned but threw them down into Tartarus^[a](E) and delivered them to be kept in chains^[b] of darkness until judgment;^{(F) 5} and if He didn’t spare the ancient world, but protected Noah,^(G) a preacher of righteousness, and seven others,^[c](H) when He brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;