2 Peter 2:5

God didn't spare the ancient world either, but he protected Noah who told people about the God who did right. He was one of the eight who were saved when God sent a flood upon a world of evil people.

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And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

In Context

4For God didn't even spare the angels when they sinned. He threw them into Tartarus, holding them in dark pits ready for judgment.

6God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to total destruction, burning them to ash, as an example of what will happen to those who live evil lives.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:1People started to increase in number and spread out across the earth. Daughters were born to them,

Job 22:15Why do you insist on following the traditional thinking of the wicked?

Luke 17:26The time when the Son of man comes will be like it was in Noah's day.

1 Peter 3:19He went to speak to those “imprisoned”

Jude 1:14Enoch, seven generations on from Adam, spoke prophetically about these people: “Look! The Lord is coming, together with thousands and thousands of his holy ones

Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 2:2-7

False Prophets and Corrupt Leaders. ( a. d. 67.) 1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. 3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you— I. In the end of the former chapter there is… Read the whole commentary →

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