2 Peter 2:1-8 ▼

1 But there were also false prophets among the people, as also among you⁺ there will be false teachers who will stealthily introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master having bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

2 And many will follow after their sensuality, through whom the way of the truth will be blasphemed.

3 And through covetousness they will exploit you⁺ with fabricated words, for whom the judgment of long ago is not idle, and their destruction does not slumber.

4 For if God did not spare the angels having sinned, but having cast them down to Tartarus in chains of gloomy darkness, He delivered them, being kept for judgment;

5 and He did not spare the ancient world, but He preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, one of eight, having brought the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

6 and He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, having reduced them to ashes, having set an example of what is coming on the ungodly;

7 and He delivered righteous Lot, being distressed by the conduct in sensuality of the lawless

8 (for that righteous man dwelling, among them, day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul in seeing and hearing their lawless works)—