2 And many shall follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of,
3 and in greed, with fabricated words, they shall use you for gain. From of old their judgment does not linger, and their destruction does not slumber.
4 For if Elohim did not spare the messengers who sinned, but sent them to Tartaros, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be kept for judgment,
5 and did not spare the world of old, but preserved Noaḥ, a proclaimer of righteousness, and seven others, bringing in the flood on the world of the wicked,
6 and having reduced to ashes the cities of Seḏom and Amorah condemned them to destruction – having made them an example to those who afterward would live wickedly,
7 and rescued righteous Lot, who was oppressed with the indecent behaviour of the lawless
8 (for day after day that righteous man, dwelling among them, tortured his righteous being by seeing and hearing their lawless works),