## For if God did not spare the angels who sinned…  ##

This begins a series of "if" statements that conclude in verse [2 Peter 2:7](./07.md).

## down to Tartarus ##

"Tartarus" is the Greek word for hell taken from greek and roman religion. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])

## to be kept in chains in darkness until the judgment ##

To be held in a secure prison waiting God's final judgment.

## and if he did not spare the ancient world…but brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly ##

God destroyed the ancient world and the ungodly people with a flood.

## but did preserve Noah ##

God saved righteous Noah from the flood.

## reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes ##

God used fire to destroy the ungodly in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.

## as an example of what is to come ##

Just as Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by fire, at the end of the age God will destroy all the ungodly people by the lake of fire.