2 Peter 2:3-10

New International Version

³ In their greed^(A) these teachers will exploit you^(B) with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

⁴ For if God did not spare angels when they sinned,^(C) but sent them to hell,^[a] putting them in chains of darkness^[b] to be held for judgment;^{(D) 5} if he did not spare the ancient world^(E) when he brought the flood on its ungodly people,^(F) but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;^{(G) 6} if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes,^(H) and made them an example^(I) of what is going to happen to the ungodly;^{(J) 7} and if he rescued Lot,^(K) a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless^{(L) 8} (for that righteous man,^(M) living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— ⁹ if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials^(N) and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.^{(O) 10} This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire^(P) of the flesh^[c] and despise authority.

Bold and arrogant, they are not afraid to heap abuse on celestial beings;^(Q)