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Text -- 2 Peter 2:4-22 (NET)
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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 .
2:12 But 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 ,
2:13 suffering harm as the wages for their harmful ways . By considering it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight , they are stains and blemishes , indulging in their deceitful pleasures when they feast together with you .
2:14 Their eyes , full of adultery , never stop sinning ; they entice unstable people . They have trained their hearts for greed , these cursed children !
2:15 By forsaking the right path they have gone astray , because they followed the way of Balaam son of Bosor , who loved the wages of unrighteousness ,
2:16 yet was rebuked for his own transgression (a dumb donkey , speaking with a human voice , restrained the prophet’s madness ).
2:17 These men are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm , for whom the utter depths of darkness have been reserved .
2:18 For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice , with fleshly desires and with debauchery , people who have just escaped from those who reside in error .
2:19 Although these false teachers promise such people freedom , they themselves are enslaved to immorality . For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved .
2:20 For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ , they again get entangled in them and succumb to them , their last state has become worse for them than their first .
2:21 For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than , having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them .
2:22 They are illustrations of this true proverb : “A dog returns to its own vomit ,” and “A sow , after washing herself, wallows in the mire .”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Doctrines |
Heresy |
Minister |
JUDE, EPISTLE OF |
Wicked |
Anarchy |
Balaam |
PETER, THE SECOND EPISTLE OF |
PRISON, SPIRITS IN |
Worldliness |
Apostasy |
PETER, SIMON |
ESCHATOLOGY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, VI-X |
Angel |
Sodom |
Sin |
Judgment |
Associations |
Nicolaitanes |
Temptation |
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NET Notes -> 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; 2Pe 2:12; 2Pe 2:12; 2Pe 2:12; 2Pe 2:12; 2Pe 2:12; 2Pe 2:12; 2Pe 2:13; 2Pe 2:13; 2Pe 2:13; 2Pe 2:14; 2Pe 2:14; 2Pe 2:14; 2Pe 2:14; 2Pe 2:14; 2Pe 2:14; 2Pe 2:15; 2Pe 2:15; 2Pe 2:16; 2Pe 2:16; 2Pe 2:16; 2Pe 2:16; 2Pe 2:17; 2Pe 2:17; 2Pe 2:18; 2Pe 2:18; 2Pe 2:18; 2Pe 2:18; 2Pe 2:18; 2Pe 2:18; 2Pe 2:19; 2Pe 2:19; 2Pe 2:19; 2Pe 2:19; 2Pe 2:19; 2Pe 2:20; 2Pe 2:20; 2Pe 2:20; 2Pe 2:20; 2Pe 2:22; 2Pe 2:22; 2Pe 2:22; 2Pe 2:22
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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NET Notes: 2Pe 2:11 ‡ Some witnesses lack παρὰ κυρίῳ (para kuriw; so A Ψ 33 81 1505 1881 2464 al vg co), while o...
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NET Notes: 2Pe 2:12 This cryptic expression has been variously interpreted. (1) It could involve a simple cognate dative in which case the idea is “they will be utt...
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NET Notes: 2Pe 2:14 Grk “having hearts trained in greediness, children of cursing.” The participles continue the general description of the false teachers, wi...
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NET Notes: 2Pe 2:15 “Wages of unrighteousness” in Greek is the same expression found in v. 13, “wages for harmful ways.” The repetition makes the ...
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NET Notes: 2Pe 2:17 Grk “utter darkness of darkness.” Verse 4 speaks of wicked angels presently in “chains of utter darkness,” while the final fat...
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