2 Peter 2:3-6
Holman Christian Standard Bible
3 They will exploit(A) you in their greed(B) with deceptive words. Their condemnation,(C) pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.
4 For if God didn’t spare(D) the angels who sinned but threw them down into Tartarus[a](E) and delivered them to be kept in chains[b] of darkness until judgment;(F) 5 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 a flood on the world of the ungodly; 6 and if He reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah(I) to ashes and condemned them to ruin,[d] making them an example to those who were going to be ungodly;[e](J)
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- 2 Peter 2:4 = Gk name for a place of divine punishment in the underworld.
- 2 Peter 2:4 Other mss read in pits
- 2 Peter 2:5 Lit righteousness, as the eighth
- 2 Peter 2:6 Other mss omit to ruin
- 2 Peter 2:6 Other mss read an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly
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