2 Peter 2:4

World English Bible (2000)

For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

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  • Jude 1:6 : 6 Angels who didn't keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
  • Matt 25:41 : 41 Then he will say also to those on the left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
  • Isa 14:12 : 12 How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!
  • Rev 20:1-3 : 1 I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. 2 He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years, 3 and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.
  • Rev 20:10 : 10 The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
  • Ezek 5:11 : 11 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, 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, and I also will have no pity.
  • Ezek 7:4 : 4 My eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
  • Rev 12:7-9 : 7 There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war. 8 They didn't prevail, neither was a place found for him any more in heaven. 9 The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of 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, though greater in might and power, don't bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord.
  • 2 Pet 2:5 : 5 and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;
  • Job 4:18 : 18 Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.
  • Matt 8:29 : 29 Behold, they cried out, saying, "What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?"
  • Mark 5:7 : 7 and crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don't torment me."
  • Luke 8:31 : 31 They begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss.
  • Luke 10:18 : 18 He said to them, "I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.
  • John 8:44 : 44 You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.
  • Jude 1:13 : 13 wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;
  • 1 John 3:8 : 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

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    4 For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

    5 Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn't believe.

    6 Angels who didn't keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

    7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

    8 Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

    9 But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, "May the Lord rebuke you!"

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    5 and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

    6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;

    7 and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked

    8 (for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):

    9 the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

    10 but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

    11 whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don't bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord.

    12 But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

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    3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

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    2 For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense;

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    6 by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

    7 But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

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    5 For he didn't subject the world to come, of which we speak, to angels.

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    49 He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.

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    13 wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

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    19 in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,

    20 who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

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    12 To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, they ministered these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

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    5 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

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    17 These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

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    8 giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

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    12 that they all might be judged who didn't believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

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    18 Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.

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    10 for it is written, 'He will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you;'

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    23 and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

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    18 "If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?"

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    49 So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come forth, and separate the wicked from among the righteous,

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    2 We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

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    7 Of the angels he says, "Who makes his angels winds, and his servants a flame of fire."

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    15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him."

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    22 For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.

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    9 The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.