2And a great number will go with them in their evil ways, through whom the true way will have a bad name.
3And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.
4For if God did not have pity for the angels who did evil, but sent them down into hell, to be kept in chains of eternal night till they were judged;
5And did not have mercy on the world which then was, but only kept safe Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he let loose the waters over the world of the evil-doers;
6And sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, burning them up with fire as an example to those whose way of life might in the future be unpleasing to him;
7And kept safe Lot, the upright man, who was deeply troubled by the unclean life of the evil-doers
8(Because the soul of that upright man living among them was pained from day to day by seeing and hearing their crimes):
