2 Peter 2:1-9 ▼

1 And also were there false prophets among the people, as also among you shall be false teachers, who shall privately bring in doctrines of perdition, and denying the master having purchased them, having brought upon themselves swift destruction.

2 (And many shall follow their licentiousness; by whom the way of truth shall be defamed.)

3 And by covetousness with feigned words shall trade in you: to whom judgment since a long while is not inactive, and their perdition sleeps not.

4 For if God spared not the angels having sinned, but delivered up, hurled into Tartarus, to cords of darkness, having been kept for judgment;

5 And spared not the old world, but Noah the eighth, a herald of justice, he watched, having brought an inundation upon the world of the irreligious;

6 And the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha having reduced to ashes, condemned with a catastrophe, a pattern set to them about to act irreligiously;

7 And just Lot, being harassed by the licentiousness of the lawless for the turning back, he delivered:

8 (For the just one in seeing and hearing, dwelling among them, from day to day tried the just soul with lawless works;)

9 The Lord knows to deliver the religious out of temptation, and to keep the unjust restrained for the day of judgment;