2 Peter 2:5

and spared not the old world, but delivered Noah the eighth person, the preacher of righteousness, brings the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

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 if God spared not the angels who sinned, but having sent them down to hell, committed them to chains of darkness to be kept unto judgment;

6and having destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, with a catastrophe he condemned them, having put them forth as an example to those about to be ungodly:

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Cross References

Luke 17:26And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of man.

1 Peter 3:19by which also having gone he proclaimed to the spirits in prison;

Jude 1:14And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied against these, saying, Behold, the Lord came with his myriads of saints,

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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