2 Peter 2:5 - Forerunner Commentary

2 Peter 2:5

3 By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction¹ does not slumber.

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4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to¹ hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

5 and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;

6 and turning the cities of ^aSodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;

7 and ^adelivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked

8 (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, ^atormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)—

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Definitions of words in 2 Peter 2:5:

Ancient {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Flood {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Flood {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

In {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

One {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

People {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Righteousness {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Righteousness {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Ungodly {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}

Noah {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Noah {Hitchcock's Bible Names}

On {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
On {Hitchcock's Bible Names}

Other definition entries containing 2 Peter 2:5:

Peter, Simon {I.S.B.E.}
Prison, Spirits In {I.S.B.E.}

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