1. But false prophets also arose among the people. In the same way, false teachers will come among you. They will introduce destructive opinions and deny the master who bought them, bringing quick destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow them in their unrestrained immorality, and because of these false teachers the way of truth will be slandered.
3. In their greed they will take advantage of you with lies. The judgment pronounced against them long ago hasn’t fallen idle, nor is their destruction sleeping.
4. God didn’t spare the angels when they sinned but cast them into the lowest level of the underworld and committed them to chains of darkness, keeping them there until the judgment.
5. And he didn’t spare the ancient world when he brought a flood on the world of ungodly people, even though he protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, along with seven others.
6. God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to total destruction, reducing them to ashes as a warning to ungodly people.
7. And he rescued righteous Lot, who was made miserable by the unrestrained immorality of unruly people. (