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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.
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.