THE DESTINY OF THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE UNRIGHTEOUS

 

4 For if God Did Not Spare Angels

When they Sinned,

But Sent them To Hell,

Putting them in Chains of Darkness

To be Held for Judgment;

5 If He Did Not Spare the Ancient World

When He Brought the Flood

On its Ungodly People,

But Protected Noah,

A PREACHER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,

And Seven others,

6 If He Condemned

The Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah

By Burning them to Ashes,

And Made them and Example

Of what is Going to Happen to the Ungodly,

7 And if He Rescued Lot,

A Righteous man,

Who was Distressed

By the Depraved Conduct

Of the Lawless

8 (For that Righteous man,

Living among them Day after Day,

WAS TORMENTED

IN HIS RIGHTEOUS SOUL

By the Deeds he Saw and Heard)--

9 If this is so,

Then the Lord Knows

How to Rescue the Godly

From Trials

And to Hold the Unrighteous

FOR PUNISHMENT

ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

10 This is Especially True of those

Who Follow

THE CORRUPT DESIRE OF THE FLESH

AND DESPISE AUTHORITY

(The Authority of God)

(2 Peter 2:4-10, NIV)