2 Peter 2:1-10

¹But there also arose false prophets among the people, as among you also there will be false teachers, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. ²Many will follow their destructive ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned. ³In covetousness will they exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn`t linger, and their destruction will not slumber. <sup>4</sup>For if God didn`t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved to judgment; ⁵and didn`t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly; ⁶and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly; ⁷and delivered righteous Lot, very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked ⁸(for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, tormented his righteous soul from day to day with lawless deeds): ⁹the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment to the day of judgment; ¹⁰but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;