But there were ^afalse prophets also among the people, even as there shall be ^bfalse ^cteachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that ^dbought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of ^atruth shall be evil spoken of.

 3 And through covetousness shall they with ^afeigned words make merchandise of you: whose ^bjudgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their ^cdamnation slumbereth not.

 4 For if God spared not the ^aangels that sinned, but cast them down to ^bhell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto ^cjudgment;

 5 And spared not the old world, but saved ^aNoah the eighth person, a preacher of ^brighteousness, bringing in the ^cflood upon the world of the ungodly;

 6 And turning the cities of ^aSodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ^bensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

 7 And delivered just ^aLot, ^bvexed with the ^cfilthy conversation of the wicked:

 8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, ^avexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

 9 The Lord knoweth how to ^adeliver the ^bgodly out of ^ctemptations, and to ^dreserve the unjust unto the day of ^ejudgment to be punished: