2 Peter 2:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast `them' down to Tartarus, did deliver `them' to judgment, having been reserved,

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  • Jude 1:6 : 6 messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but did leave their proper dwelling, to a judgment of a great day, in bonds everlasting, under darkness He hath kept,
  • Matt 25:41 : 41 Then shall he say also to those on the left hand, Go ye from me, the cursed, to the fire, the age-during, that hath been prepared for the Devil and his messengers;
  • Isa 14:12 : 12 How hast thou fallen from the heavens, O shining one, son of the dawn! Thou hast been cut down to earth, O weakener of nations.
  • Rev 20:1-3 : 1 And I saw a messenger coming down out of the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain over his hand, 2 and he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, who is Devil and Adversary, and did bind him a thousand years, 3 and he cast him to the abyss, and did shut him up, and put a seal upon him, that he may not lead astray the nations any more, till the thousand years may be finished; and after these it behoveth him to be loosed a little time.
  • Rev 20:10 : 10 and the Devil, who is leading them astray, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where `are' the beast and the false prophet, and they shall be tormented day and night -- to the ages of the ages.
  • Ezek 5:11 : 11 Therefore, I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah: Because My sanctuary thou hast defiled, With all thy detestable things, And with all thine abominations, Mine eye pitieth not, and I also spare not. Do not even I also diminish?
  • Ezek 7:4 : 4 And no pity on thee hath Mine eye, nor do I spare, For thy ways against thee I do set, And thine abominations are in thy midst, And ye have known that I `am' Jehovah.
  • Rev 12:7-9 : 7 And there came war in the heaven; Michael and his messengers did war against the dragon, and the dragon did war, and his messengers, 8 and they did not prevail, nor was their place found any more in the heaven; 9 and the great dragon was cast forth -- the old serpent, who is called `Devil,' and `the Adversary,' who is leading astray the whole world -- he was cast forth to the earth, and his messengers were cast forth with him.
  • 2 Pet 2:11 : 11 whereas messengers, in strength and power being greater, do not bear against them before the Lord an evil speaking judgment;
  • 2 Pet 2:5 : 5 and the old world did not spare, but the eighth person, Noah, of righteousness a preacher, did keep, a flood on the world of the impious having brought,
  • Job 4:18 : 18 Lo, in His servants He putteth no credence, Nor in His messengers setteth praise.'
  • Matt 8:29 : 29 and lo, they cried out, saying, `What -- to us and to thee, Jesus, Son of God? didst thou come hither, before the time, to afflict us?'
  • Mark 5:7 : 7 and having called with a loud voice, he said, `What -- to me and to thee, Jesus, Son of God the Most High? I adjure thee by God, mayest thou not afflict me!'
  • Luke 8:31 : 31 and he was calling on him, that he may not command them to go away to the abyss,
  • Luke 10:18 : 18 and he said to them, `I was beholding the Adversary, as lightning from the heaven having fallen;
  • John 8:44 : 44 `Ye are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar -- also his father.
  • Jude 1:13 : 13 wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept.
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,
  • 1 John 3:8 : 8 he who is doing the sin, of the devil he is, because from the beginning the devil doth sin; for this was the Son of God manifested, that he may break up the works of the devil;

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  • Jude 1:4-9
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    4for there did come in unobserved certain men, long ago having been written beforehand to this judgment, impious, the grace of our God perverting to lasciviousness, and our only Master, God, and Lord -- Jesus Christ -- denying,

    5and to remind you I intend, you knowing once this, that the Lord, a people out of the land of Egypt having saved, again those who did not believe did destroy;

    6messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but did leave their proper dwelling, to a judgment of a great day, in bonds everlasting, under darkness He hath kept,

    7as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before -- an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.

    8In like manner, nevertheless, those dreaming also the flesh indeed do defile, and lordship they put away, and dignities they speak evil of,

    9yet Michael, the chief messenger, when, with the devil contending, he was disputing about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring up an evil-speaking judgment, but said, `The Lord rebuke thee!'

  • 2 Pet 2:5-12
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    5and the old world did not spare, but the eighth person, Noah, of righteousness a preacher, did keep, a flood on the world of the impious having brought,

    6and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah having turned to ashes, with an overthrow did condemn, an example to those about to be impious having set `them';

    7and righteous Lot, worn down by the conduct in lasciviousness of the impious, He did rescue,

    8for in seeing and hearing, the righteous man, dwelling among them, day by day the righteous soul with unlawful works was harassing.

    9The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,

    10and chiefly those going behind the flesh in desire of uncleanness, and lordship despising; presumptuous, self-complacent, dignities they are not afraid to speak evil of,

    11whereas messengers, in strength and power being greater, do not bear against them before the Lord an evil speaking judgment;

    12and these, as irrational natural beasts, made to be caught and destroyed -- in what things they are ignorant of, speaking evil -- in their destruction shall be destroyed,

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    3and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.

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    2for if the word being spoken through messengers did become stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience did receive a just recompense,

  • 2 Pet 3:6-7
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    6through which the then world, by water having been deluged, was destroyed;

    7and the present heavens and the earth, by the same word are treasured, for fire being kept to a day of judgment and destruction of the impious men.

  • Heb 2:5
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    5For not to messengers did He subject the coming world, concerning which we speak,

  • Ps 78:49
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    49He sendeth on them the fury of His anger, Wrath, and indignation, and distress -- A discharge of evil messengers.

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    13wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept.

  • Matt 25:41
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    41Then shall he say also to those on the left hand, Go ye from me, the cursed, to the fire, the age-during, that hath been prepared for the Devil and his messengers;

  • 1 Pet 3:19-20
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    19in which also to the spirits in prison having gone he did preach,

    20who sometime disbelieved, when once the long-suffering of God did wait, in days of Noah -- an ark being preparing -- in which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water;

  • 1 Pet 1:12
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    12to whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were ministering these, which now were told to you (through those who did proclaim good news to you,) in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, to which things messengers do desire to bend looking.

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    5but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

  • 2 Pet 2:17
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    17These are wells without water, and clouds by a tempest driven, to whom the thick gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept;

  • 2 Thess 1:8-9
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    8in flaming fire, giving vengeance to those not knowing God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ;

    9who shall suffer justice -- destruction age-during -- from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his strength,

  • 2 Thess 2:12
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    12that they may be judged -- all who did not believe the truth, but were well pleased in the unrighteousness.

  • Job 4:18
    70%

    18Lo, in His servants He putteth no credence, Nor in His messengers setteth praise.'

  • Luke 4:10
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    10for it hath been written -- To His messengers He will give charge concerning thee, to guard over thee,

  • Jude 1:23
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    23and some in fear save ye, out of the fire snatching, hating even the coat from the flesh spotted.

  • 1 Pet 4:18
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    18And if the righteous man is scarcely saved, the ungodly and sinner -- where shall he appear?

  • Matt 13:49
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    49so shall it be in the full end of the age, the messengers shall come forth and separate the evil out of the midst of the righteous,

  • Rom 2:2
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    2and we have known that the judgment of God is according to truth, upon those practising such things.

  • Heb 1:7
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    7and unto the messengers, indeed, He saith, `Who is making His messengers spirits, and His ministers a flame of fire;'

  • Jude 1:15
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    15to do judgment against all, and to convict all their impious ones, concerning all their works of impiety that they did impiously, and concerning all the stiff things that speak against Him did impious sinners.'

  • Job 27:22
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    22And it casteth at him, and doth not spare, From its hand he diligently fleeth.

  • Rev 12:9
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    9and the great dragon was cast forth -- the old serpent, who is called `Devil,' and `the Adversary,' who is leading astray the whole world -- he was cast forth to the earth, and his messengers were cast forth with him.