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2 Peter 2:2-8 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

2. And many shall follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of,

3. and in greed, with fabricated words, they shall use you for gain. From of old their judgment does not linger, and their destruction does not slumber.

4. For if Elohim did not spare the messengers who sinned, but sent them to Tartaros, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be kept for judgment,

5. and did not spare the world of old, but preserved Noaḥ, a proclaimer of righteousness, and seven others, bringing in the flood on the world of the wicked,

6. and having reduced to ashes the cities of Seḏom and Amorah condemned them to destruction – having made them an example to those who afterward would live wickedly,

7. and rescued righteous Lot, who was oppressed with the indecent behaviour of the lawless

8. (for day after day that righteous man, dwelling among them, tortured his righteous being by seeing and hearing their lawless works),

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