2 Peter 2:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

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  • Jude 1:6 : 6 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
  • Matt 25:41 : 41 Then he will also say to those on the left hand, Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.
  • Isa 14:12 : 12 How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the ground, who did weaken the nations!
  • Rev 20:1-3 : 1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, 3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were fulfilled; and after that, he must be released for a little while.
  • Rev 20:10 : 10 And the devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
  • Ezek 5:11 : 11 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD; Surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish you; neither shall my eye spare, nor will I have any pity.
  • Ezek 7:4 : 4 And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity: but I will repay your ways upon you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the LORD.
  • Rev 12:7-9 : 7 And there was a war in heaven, Michael and his angels waging war with the dragon. The dragon and his angels waged war, 8 but they were not strong enough, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven. 9 And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
  • 2 Pet 2:11 : 11 Whereas angels, who are greater in power and might, do not bring a slanderous accusation against them before the Lord.
  • 2 Pet 2:5 : 5 And did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
  • Job 4:18 : 18 Behold, he puts no trust in his servants; and his angels he charges with folly:
  • Matt 8:29 : 29 And behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?
  • Mark 5:7 : 7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you by God, do not torment me.
  • Luke 8:31 : 31 And they begged him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
  • Luke 10:18 : 18 And he said to them, I saw Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
  • John 8:44 : 44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you wish to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not abide in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
  • Jude 1:13 : 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment;
  • 1 John 3:8 : 8 He who commits sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

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  • Jude 1:4-9
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    4For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lewdness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

    5I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

    6And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

    7As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

    8Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries.

    9Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, 'The Lord rebuke you!'

  • 2 Pet 2:5-12
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    5And did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

    6And turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemning them with an overthrow, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;

    7And delivered righteous Lot, who was distressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked:

    8For that righteous man, dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds.

    9The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment;

    10And especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed, and not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

    11Whereas angels, who are greater in power and might, do not bring a slanderous accusation against them before the Lord.

    12But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption;

  • 2 Pet 2:3
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    3And through covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; their judgment is long overdue, and their destruction does not slumber.

  • Heb 2:2
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    2For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;

  • 2 Pet 3:6-7
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    6By which the world that then existed, being overflowed with water, perished:

    7But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved for fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

  • Heb 2:5
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    5For He has not put the world to come, of which we speak, in subjection to the angels.

  • Ps 78:49
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    49He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.

  • Jude 1:13
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    13Raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

  • Matt 25:41
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    41Then he will also say to those on the left hand, Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.

  • 1 Pet 3:19-20
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    19By whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison,

    20Who formerly were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

  • 1 Pet 1:12
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    12To them it was revealed that not to themselves, but to us they were ministering the things which have now been reported to you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things which angels desire to look into.

  • Rom 2:5
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    5But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

  • 2 Pet 2:17
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    17These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, to whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.

  • 2 Thess 1:8-9
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    8In flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

    9Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

  • 2 Thess 2:12
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    12That they all might be condemned who did not believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

  • Job 4:18
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    18Behold, he puts no trust in his servants; and his angels he charges with folly:

  • Luke 4:10
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    10For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you:

  • Jude 1:23
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    23but others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh.

  • 1 Pet 4:18
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    18And if the righteous are scarcely saved, where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?

  • Matt 13:49
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    49This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous.

  • Rom 2:2
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    2But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who commit such things.

  • Heb 1:7
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    7And of the angels He says, Who makes His angels spirits, and His ministers a flame of fire.

  • Jude 1:15
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    15to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.'

  • Job 27:22
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    22For God will hurl upon him, and not spare; he would gladly flee out of His hand.

  • Rev 12:9
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    9And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.