9 then the Lord knows how to ^yrescue the godly from trials,¹ and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, 10 and especially those who indulge² in the lust of defiling passion and ^zdespise authority.

Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones, 11 ^awhereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord. 12 ^bBut these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, ^cblaspheming about ^dmatters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,