2 Peter 2:4

Common English Bible

Active judgment of God

⁴God didn’t spare the angels when they sinned but cast them into the lowest level of the underworld and committed them to chains of darkness, keeping them there until the judgment.

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2 Peter 2:4

New Living Translation

⁴For God did not spare even the angels who sinned. He threw them into hell,^[a] in gloomy pits of darkness,^[b] where they are being held until the day of judgment.

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Footnotes

2:4a Greek Tartarus.
2:4b Some manuscripts read in chains of gloom.

2 Peter 2:4

Contemporary English Version

⁴God did not have pity on the angels that sinned. He had them tied up and thrown into the dark pits of hell until the time of judgment.

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2 Peter 2:4-5

The Message

^4-5God didn’t let the rebel angels off the hook, but jailed them in hell till Judgment Day. Neither did he let the ancient ungodly world off. He wiped it out with a flood, rescuing only eight people—Noah, the sole voice of righteousness, was one of them.

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2 Peter 2:4

New King James Version

Doom of False Teachers

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

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