2 Peter 2:6

and reducing the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha to ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those that should afterwards be impious;

1770 John Worsley NT

In The King James Version

And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

In Context

5(but preserved Noah an eighth person, a preacher of righteousness,) bringing a deluge upon the world of the ungodly;

7and delivered righteous Lot grieved at the lewd conversation of the wicked:

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 10:11Now all these things happened to them as examples: and are written for our admonition, on whom the last ages are come.

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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