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

For God did not spare angels when they sinned, but threw them into Sheol.[a] He put them in chains of gloomy darkness, to be held until the judgment. [b] 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.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:4 Lit. hold captive in Tartarus, the deepest place of Hades or hell.
  2. 2 Peter 2:5 cf. Ezek. 26:20; Judah 6.