037 2 Peter 2 Pt 3

2 Peter 2

2 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who shall secretly bring in damnable heresies - even denying the Lord Who has bought them - and bring upon themselves swift damnation.

2 And many shall follow their destructive ways, by whom the way of truth shall be blasphemed.

3 And through covetousness they shall, with crafty words, make merchandise of you. Their ancient condemnation is not lingering. And their destruction does not slumber.

4 For if God did not spare the angels who had sinned - but cast them down into Hell and delivered them into chains of darkness (to be kept for damnation) -

5 nor spare the old world (save Noah, the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness) - but brought in the Flood upon the world of the ungodly,

6 and turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes (condemning and overthrowing them), and made them an example to those who would live ungodly afterward,

7 and delivered Lot only, overwrought with the unclean conduct of the wicked

8 (for he - being righteous and dwelling among them - tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their unlawful deeds) -

9 then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of trials and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the Day of Judgment;

10 and chiefly those who walk after the flesh (in the lust of uncleanness) and despise government. They are presumptuous, standing in their own conceit, and unafraid to blaspheme God’s glories.

11 Whereas, the angels (who are greater, both in power and might) do not bring slanderous judgment against them before the Lord.

12 But these, as irrational animals (born in nature for captur