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and did not spare1the ancientworld, but preserved2Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with sevenothers, when He brought a 3flood upon the world of the ungodly;
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and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
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For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment;
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and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
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and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter;
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and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men