4For if God didn’t spare 2:4 Rm 8:32; Jd 6 the angels who sinned but cast them into hell 2:4 Gk Tartarus, 2:4 Rv 20:2–3,10 and delivered them in chains 2:4 Other mss read in pits of utter darkness to be kept for judgment; 2:4 Mt 25:41
5and if he didn’t spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, 2:5 Gn 5:29 a preacher of righteousness, and seven others, 2:5 Lit Noah, the eighth, a preacher of righteousness, 2:5 1Pt 3:20 when he brought the flood on the world of the ungodly;
20For if, having escaped the world’s impurity through the knowledge of the Lord 2:20 Other mss read our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, 2:20 2Pt 1:2 they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first. 2:20 Mt 12:45; Lk 11:26