They will exploit(A) you in their greed(B) with made-up stories. Their condemnation,(C) pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.

For if God didn’t spare(D) the angels who sinned but cast them into hell[a](E) and delivered them in chains[b] of utter darkness to be kept for judgment;(F) 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 the flood on the world of the ungodly;

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Footnotes

  1. 2:4 Gk Tartarus
  2. 2:4 Other mss read in pits
  3. 2:5 Lit Noah, the eighth, a preacher of righteousness

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