18 If God places no trust in his servants,(A)
    if he charges his angels with error,(B)

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18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:

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And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day.(A)

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And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

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For if God did not spare angels when they sinned,(A) but sent them to hell,[a] putting them in chains of darkness[b] to be held for judgment;(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:4 Greek Tartarus
  2. 2 Peter 2:4 Some manuscripts in gloomy dungeons

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;

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If even the moon(A) is not bright
    and the stars are not pure in his eyes,(B)
how much less a mortal, who is but a maggot—
    a human being,(C) who is only a worm!”(D)

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Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.

How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?

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15 If God places no trust in his holy ones,(A)
    if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,(B)
16 how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt,(C)
    who drink up evil(D) like water!(E)

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15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

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Above him were seraphim,(A) each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet,(B) and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another:

“Holy, holy(C), holy is the Lord Almighty;(D)
    the whole earth(E) is full of his glory.”(F)

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Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.

And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

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He makes winds his messengers,[a](A)
    flames of fire(B) his servants.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 104:4 Or angels

Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:

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20 Praise the Lord,(A) you his angels,(B)
    you mighty ones(C) who do his bidding,(D)
    who obey his word.
21 Praise the Lord, all his heavenly hosts,(E)
    you his servants(F) who do his will.

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20 Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.

21 Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure.

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