Doom of False
Teachers 4 "For
if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell
and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
5 and did not spare the ancient world, but saved
Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the
flood on the world of the ungodly; 6 and turning
the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction,
making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; 7
and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct
of the wicked 8 (for that righteous man, dwelling
among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and
hearing their lawless deeds)— 9 then the Lord knows
how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust
under punishment for the day of judgment, 10 and
especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness
and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed. They are not
afraid to speak evil of dignitaries, 11 whereas
angels, who are greater in power and might, do not bring a reviling accusation
against them before the Lord."
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