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For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell[a] and committed them to chains[b] of deepest darkness to be kept until the judgment; and if he did not spare the ancient world, even though he saved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood on a world of the ungodly; and if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction[c] and made them an example of what is coming to the ungodly;[d]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:4 Gk Tartaros
  2. 2 Peter 2:4 Other ancient authorities read pits
  3. 2 Peter 2:6 Other ancient authorities lack to extinction
  4. 2 Peter 2:6 Other ancient authorities read an example to those who were to be ungodly

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