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Text -- 2 Peter 2:1-11 (NET)
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The False Teachers’ Ungodly Lifestyle
2:1 But false prophets arose among the people , just as there will be false teachers among you . These false teachers will infiltrate your midst with destructive heresies , even to the point of denying the Master who bought them . As a result, they will bring swift destruction on themselves .
2:2 And many will follow their debauched lifestyles . Because of these false teachers , the way of truth will be slandered .
2:3 And 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 .
2:4 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 ,
2:5 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 ,
2:6 and 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 ,
2:7 and if he rescued Lot , a righteous man in anguish over the debauched lifestyle of lawless men ,
2:8 (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 )
2:9 –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 ,
2:10 especially those who indulge their fleshly desires and who despise authority . Brazen and insolent , they are not afraid to insult the glorious ones,
2:11 yet even angels , who are much more powerful , do not bring a slanderous judgment against them before the Lord .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Heresy |
JUDE, EPISTLE OF |
Doctrines |
Minister |
Wicked |
PRISON, SPIRITS IN |
JUDE, THE EPISTLE OF |
PETER, THE SECOND EPISTLE OF |
Sodom |
Angel |
CRIME; CRIMES |
PETER, SIMON |
Hell |
Blessing |
Lot |
Hypocrisy |
Speaking |
Sin |
LASCIVIOUSNESS |
Zeal |
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NET Notes -> 2Pe 2:1; 2Pe 2:1; 2Pe 2:1; 2Pe 2:1; 2Pe 2:1; 2Pe 2:1; 2Pe 2:1; 2Pe 2:2; 2Pe 2:2; 2Pe 2:2; 2Pe 2:3; 2Pe 2:3; 2Pe 2:3; 2Pe 2:3; 2Pe 2:4; 2Pe 2:4; 2Pe 2:4; 2Pe 2:4; 2Pe 2:4; 2Pe 2:5; 2Pe 2:5; 2Pe 2:5; 2Pe 2:6; 2Pe 2:6; 2Pe 2:6; 2Pe 2:6; 2Pe 2:6; 2Pe 2:6; 2Pe 2:7; 2Pe 2:7; 2Pe 2:8; 2Pe 2:8; 2Pe 2:9; 2Pe 2:9; 2Pe 2:9; 2Pe 2:10; 2Pe 2:10; 2Pe 2:10; 2Pe 2:10; 2Pe 2:11; 2Pe 2:11; 2Pe 2:11; 2Pe 2:11
NET Notes: 2Pe 2:1 Grk “bringing.” The present participle ἐπάγοντες (epagonte") indicates the result of th...
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NET Notes: 2Pe 2:3 Greek has “and their.” As introducing a synonymous parallel, it is superfluous in English.
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NET Notes: 2Pe 2:4 The genitive ζόφου (zofou) is taken as a genitive of place. See previous note for discussion.
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NET Notes: 2Pe 2:6 Grk “an example of the things coming to the ungodly,” or perhaps “an example to the ungodly of coming [ages].”
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NET Notes: 2Pe 2:7 This verse more literally reads “And [if] he rescued righteous Lot, who was deeply distressed by the lifestyle of the lawless in [their] debauch...
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NET Notes: 2Pe 2:9 The adverbial participle κολαζομένους (kolazomenou") can refer either to contemporane...
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NET Notes: 2Pe 2:10 Δόξας (doxas) almost certainly refers to angelic beings rather than mere human authorities, though it is difficult to tell wh...
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