³ And ^(A)in their greed they will exploit you ^(B)with false words. ^(C)Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

⁴ For if God did not spare ^(D)angels when they sinned, but ^(E)cast them into hell^[a] and committed them to chains^[b] of gloomy darkness ^(F)to be kept until the judgment; ⁵ if he did not spare the ancient world, but ^(G)preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought ^(H)a flood upon the world of the ungodly; ⁶ if by ^(I)turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, ^(J)making them an example of ^(K)what is going to happen to the ungodly;^{[c] 7} and ^(L)if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked ⁸ (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, ^(M)he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard);

^37 (A)For as were the days of Noah, ^(B)so will be the coming of the Son of Man. ^38 (C)For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, ^(D)marrying and giving in marriage, until ^(E)the day when Noah entered the ark, ³⁹ and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, ^(F)so will be the coming of the Son of Man. ⁴⁰ Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left. ^41 (G)Two women will be grinding ^(H)at the mill; one will be taken and one left. ⁴² Therefore, ^(I)stay awake, for you do not know on what day ^(J)your Lord is coming. ^43 (K)But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night ^(L)the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁴ Therefore you also must be ^(M)ready, for ^(N)the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

²⁷ And just as ^(A)it is appointed for man to die once, and ^(B)after that comes judgment,

⁷ just as ^(A)Sodom and Gomorrah and ^(B)the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and ^(C)pursued unnatural desire,^[a] serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

Judgment Before the Great White Throne

¹¹ Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence ^(A)earth and sky fled away, and ^(B)no place was found for them. ¹² And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and ^(C)books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is ^(D)the book of life. And ^(E)the dead were judged by what was written in the books, ^(F)according to what they had done. ¹³ And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, ^(G)Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, ^(H)according to what they had done. ¹⁴ Then ^(I)Death and Hades ^(J)were thrown into the lake of fire. This is ^(K)the second death, the lake of fire. ¹⁵ And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, ^(L)he was thrown into the lake of fire.