2 Peter 2:6-16 (New American Standard)  View In My Bible 6 and
if He 1condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction
by reducing them to ashes, having made them an 2example to those
who would 3live ungodly lives thereafter ; 7 and if He 4rescued
righteous Lot, oppressed by the 5sensual conduct of
6unprincipled men 8 (for by what he saw and heard that
7righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul
tormented day after day by their lawless deeds ), 9 8then the
Lord knows how to rescue the godly from atemptation, and to keep
the unrighteous under punishment for the 9day of judgment, 10
and especially those who b10indulge the flesh in its corrupt
desires and 11despise authority. Daring, 12self-willed, they do
not tremble when they 13revile angelic cmajesties, 11 14whereas
angels who are greater in might and power do not bring a
reviling judgment against them before the Lord. 12 But 15these,
like unreasoning animals, 16born as creatures of instinct to be
captured and killed, reviling wh