5 and if He didn’t spare the ancient world, but protected Noah,(A) a preacher of righteousness, and seven others,(a)(B) when He brought a flood on the world of the ungodly; 6 and if He reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah(C) to ashes and condemned them to ruin,(b) making them an example to those who were going to be ungodly;(c)(D)

Footnotes:

a. 2 Peter 2:5: Lit righteousness, as the eighth
b. 2 Peter 2:6: Other mss omit to ruin
c. 2 Peter 2:6: Other mss read an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly

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