2 Peter 2:4

For God did not spare the angels who sinned. Instead he handed them down to Tartarus to be kept in chains of lower darkness until the judgment. + 2:4 Some other versions read, to be kept in pits of lower darkness until the judgment .

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In The King James Version

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

In Context

3In their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. For a long time their condemnation has not been idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

5Also, he did not spare the ancient world. Instead, he preserved Noah, who was a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly.

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Cross References

Job 4:18See, if God puts no trust in his servants; 1 if he accuses his angels of folly, 1

Psalms 78:50He leveled a path for his anger; 1 he did not spare them from death 1 but gave them over to the plague. 1

Ezekiel 5:11Therefore, as I live—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration—it is certainly because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your hateful things and with all your disgusting deeds, that I myself will reduce you in number; my eye will not have pity on you, and I will not spare you.

Ezekiel 7:9For my eye will not look compassionately, and I will not spare you. As you have done, I will do to you; 1 and your abominations will be in your midst so you will know that I am Yahweh, the one punishing you. 1

Matthew 25:41Then he will say to those on his left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels,

Luke 8:31They kept begging him not to send them into the abyss.

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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