³ Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers?

³⁰ How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?

⁷ Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the towns near them, having like these, given themselves up to unclean desires and gone after strange flesh, have been made an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

¹ But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.

⁹ Whose reward will be eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,

³ When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.

²² What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction:

¹³ Go in by the narrow door; for wide is the door and open is the way which goes to destruction, and great numbers go in by it.

²¹ For the Lord will come up as on Mount Perazim, he will be moved to wrath as in the valley of Gibeon; so that he may do his work--strange is his work; and give effect to his act--unnatural is his act.

¹⁵ It is a joy to the good man to do right, but it is destruction to the workers of evil.

²⁹ The way of the Lord is a strong tower for the upright man, but destruction to the workers of evil.

²⁷ When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.

¹⁸ You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

²³ But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.

²² There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.