2 Peter 2:4

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For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell and locked them up in chains in utter darkness, to be kept until the judgment,

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  • Jude 1:6 : 6 You also know that the angels who did not keep within their proper domain but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept in eternal chains in utter darkness, locked up for the judgment of the great Day.
  • Matt 25:41 : 41 “Then he will say to those on his left,‘Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels!
  • Isa 14:12 : 12 Look how you have fallen from the sky, O shining one, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O conqueror of the nations!
  • Rev 20:1-3 : 1 The Thousand Year Reign Then I saw an angel descending from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the abyss and a huge chain. 2 He seized the dragon– the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan– and tied him up for a thousand years. 3 The angel then threw him into the abyss and locked and sealed it so that he could not deceive the nations until the one thousand years were finished.(After these things he must be released for a brief period of time.)
  • Rev 20:10 : 10 And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are too, and they will be tormented there day and night forever and ever.
  • Ezek 5:11 : 11 “Therefore, as surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, because you defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominable practices, I will withdraw; my eye will not pity you, nor will I spare you.
  • Ezek 7:4 : 4 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare you. For I will hold you responsible for your behavior, and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. Then you will know that I am the LORD!
  • Rev 12:7-9 : 7 War in Heaven Then war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. 8 But the dragon was not strong enough to prevail, so there was no longer any place left in heaven for him and his angels. 9 So that huge dragon– the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world– was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.
  • 2 Pet 2:11 : 11 yet even angels, who are much more powerful, do not bring a slanderous judgment against them before the Lord.
  • 2 Pet 2:5 : 5 and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when God brought a flood on an ungodly world,
  • Job 4:18 : 18 If God puts no trust in his servants and attributes folly to his angels,
  • Matt 8:29 : 29 They cried out,“Son of God, leave us alone! Have you come here to torment us before the time?”
  • Mark 5:7 : 7 Then he cried out with a loud voice,“Leave me alone, Jesus, Son of the Most High God! I implore you by God– do not torment me!”
  • Luke 8:31 : 31 And they began to beg him not to order them to depart into the abyss.
  • Luke 10:18 : 18 So he said to them,“I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
  • John 8:44 : 44 You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
  • Jude 1:13 : 13 wild sea waves, spewing out the foam of their shame; wayward stars for whom the utter depths of eternal darkness have been reserved.
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 – if so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from their trials, and to reserve the unrighteous for punishment at the day of judgment,
  • 1 John 3:8 : 8 The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the devil.

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  • Jude 1:4-9
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    4For certain men have secretly slipped in among you– men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe– ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

    5Now I desire to remind you(even though you have been fully informed of these facts once for all) that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, later destroyed those who did not believe.

    6You also know that the angels who did not keep within their proper domain but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept in eternal chains in utter darkness, locked up for the judgment of the great Day.

    7So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns, since they indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire in a way similar to these angels, are now displayed as an example by suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

    8Yet these men, as a result of their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and insult the glorious ones.

    9But even when Michael the archangel was arguing with the devil and debating with him concerning Moses’ body, he did not dare to bring a slanderous judgment, but said,“May the Lord rebuke you!”

  • 2 Pet 2:5-12
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    5and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when God brought a flood on an ungodly world,

    6and if he turned to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah when he condemned them to destruction, having appointed them to serve as an example to future generations of the ungodly,

    7and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man in anguish over the debauched lifestyle of lawless men,

    8(for while he lived among them day after day, that righteous man was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)

    9– if so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from their trials, and to reserve the unrighteous for punishment at the day of judgment,

    10especially those who indulge their fleshly desires and who despise authority. Brazen and insolent, they are not afraid to insult the glorious ones,

    11yet even angels, who are much more powerful, do not bring a slanderous judgment against them before the Lord.

    12But these men, like irrational animals– creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed– do not understand whom they are insulting, and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed,

  • 2 Pet 2:3
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    3And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.

  • Heb 2:2
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    2For if the message spoken through angels proved to be so firm that every violation or disobedience received its just penalty,

  • 2 Pet 3:6-7
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    6Through these things the world existing at that time was destroyed when it was deluged with water.

    7But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, by being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

  • Heb 2:5
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    5Exposition of Psalm 8: Jesus and the Destiny of Humanity For he did not put the world to come, about which we are speaking, under the control of angels.

  • Ps 78:49
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    49His raging anger lashed out against them, He sent fury, rage, and trouble as messengers who bring disaster.

  • Jude 1:13
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    13wild sea waves, spewing out the foam of their shame; wayward stars for whom the utter depths of eternal darkness have been reserved.

  • Matt 25:41
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    41“Then he will say to those on his left,‘Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels!

  • 1 Pet 3:19-20
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    19In it he went and preached to the spirits in prison,

    20after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.

  • 1 Pet 1:12
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    12They were shown that they were serving not themselves but you, in regard to the things now announced to you through those who proclaimed the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven– things angels long to catch a glimpse of.

  • Rom 2:5
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    5But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed!

  • 2 Pet 2:17
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    17These men are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm, for whom the utter depths of darkness have been reserved.

  • 2 Thess 1:8-9
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    8With flaming fire he will mete out punishment on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

    9They will undergo the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,

  • 2 Thess 2:12
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    12And so all of them who have not believed the truth but have delighted in evil will be condemned.

  • Job 4:18
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    18If God puts no trust in his servants and attributes folly to his angels,

  • Luke 4:10
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    10for it is written,‘He will command his angels concerning you, to protect you,’

  • Jude 1:23
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    23save others by snatching them out of the fire; have mercy on others, coupled with a fear of God, hating even the clothes stained by the flesh.

  • 1 Pet 4:18
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    18And if the righteous are barely saved, what will become of the ungodly and sinners?

  • Matt 13:49
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    49It will be this way at the end of the age. Angels will come and separate the evil from the righteous

  • Rom 2:2
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    2Now we know that God’s judgment is in accordance with truth against those who practice such things.

  • Heb 1:7
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    7And he says of the angels,“He makes his angels winds and his ministers a flame of fire,”

  • Jude 1:15
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    15to execute judgment on all, and to convict every person of all their thoroughly ungodly deeds that they have committed, and of all the harsh words that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

  • Job 27:22
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    22It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power.

  • Rev 12:9
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    9So that huge dragon– the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world– was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.