2 Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result the way of the truth will be maligned.
3 In their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction does not slumber.
4 For God did not spare angels when they sinned, but threw them into Sheol. He put them in chains of gloomy darkness, to be held until the judgment.
5 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.
6 He devastated the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, reducing them to ashes—making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly.
7 He rescued Lot, a righteous man deeply troubled by the shameless immorality of the wicked.
8 (For that righteous man, while living among them, was tormented in his righteous soul day after day by lawless deeds he saw and heard.)