1. But 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.
2. Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result the way of the truth will be maligned.
3. In their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction does not slumber.
4. For 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.
5. He 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.
6. He devastated the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, reducing them to ashes—making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly.
7. He rescued Lot, a righteous man deeply troubled by the shameless immorality of the wicked.