## It is just like ## This is comparing how the angels abandoned their assigned work to people in Sodom and Gomorrah. ## and the cities around them ## "and the other cities near them" ## in a similar way gave themselves over ## Sodom and Gomorrah lived in sexual sins the same way as the angels followed evil ways. ## over to sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desires ## People were having sex outside of marriage. Also men were having sex with men, and women were having sex with women. ## They were given ## "The people of Sodom and Gomorrah were given" ## as examples of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire ## The destruction of the people of Sodom and Gomorrah became an example for the fate of all who reject God. ## these also pollute ## "These" refers to people who reject God who pollute their bodies with sexual immorality the same way throwing garbage into a stream can cause the water to be bad to drink. ## about the glorious ones ## "about God's wonderful angels"