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For God did not spare angels when they sinned, but threw them into Sheol.[a] He put them in chains of gloomy darkness, to be held until the judgment. [b] He did not spare the ancient world. He preserved only Noah, a proclaimer of righteousness, along with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly. He devastated the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, reducing them to ashes[c]—making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:4 Lit. hold captive in Tartarus, the deepest place of Hades or hell.
  2. 2 Peter 2:5 cf. Ezek. 26:20; Judah 6.
  3. 2 Peter 2:6 cf. Gen. 19:24.