2 Peter 2:1-9

1But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you. They will secretly bring in destructive heresies. They will even deny the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction upon themselves.

2Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result the way of the truth will be maligned.

3In their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction does not slumber.

4For 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.

5He 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.

6He devastated the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, reducing them to ashes—making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly.

7He 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.)

9Therefore the Lord certainly knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and how to keep the unrighteous being punished until the Day of Judgment—