²³ Then I will announce to them, ‘I never knew you! Depart from Me, you lawbreakers!’^[a](A)[b]

⁴⁰ Therefore, just as the weeds are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age.^(A)

⁴² They will throw them into the blazing furnace^(A) where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.^(B)

⁴⁸ where

⁴ For if God didn’t spare^(A) the angels who sinned but threw them down into Tartarus^[a](B) and delivered them to be kept in chains^[b] of darkness until judgment;^(C)

⁶ and He has kept, with eternal chains in darkness for the judgment of the great day, the angels^(A) who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling. ⁷ In the same way, Sodom and Gomorrah^(B) and the cities around them committed sexual immorality and practiced perversions,^[a] just as angels did, and serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.^(C)