2:4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, 1 but threw them into hell 2 and locked them up 3 in chains 4 in utter darkness, 5 to be kept until the judgment, 2:5 and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, 6 when God 7 brought a flood on an ungodly world, 8 2:6 and if he turned to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah when he condemned them to destruction, 9 having appointed 10 them to serve as an example 11 to future generations of the ungodly, 12 2:7 and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man in anguish over the debauched lifestyle of lawless 13 men, 14 2:8 (for while he lived among them day after day, that righteous man was tormented in his righteous soul 15 by the lawless deeds he saw and heard 16 )