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2 Peter 2:4-21

God Will Reserve Them For Punishment And Protect The Righteous

⁴For if God did not spare angels having sinned but handed-them-over to chains of gloom, having cast-them-into-hell, being reserved for^[a] judgment; ⁵and He did not spare the ancient world but protected the eighth^[b] one, Noah, a proclaimer of righteousness, having brought a flood upon the world of ungodly ones; ⁶and He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, having reduced-them-to-ashes by an overthrow, having made them an example of things coming to ungodly ones; ⁷and He delivered Lot, a righteous one being oppressed^[c] by the conduct of the lawless^[d] ones in connection with sensuality (⁸for by sight and hearing the righteous one dwelling among them day^[e] after day was tormenting his righteous soul with their lawless^[f] works)— ⁹then the Lord knows-how to deliver godly ones from a trial^[g] and reserve unrighteous ones for the day of judgment while being punished, ¹⁰and especially the ones proceeding after the flesh in^[h] a lust^[i] for^[j] defilement, and despising^[k] authority^[l].

They Are Self-Willed Slaves of Corruption Speaking Against The Things of God

Daring^[m], self-willed ones— they do not tremble while blaspheming glories^[n], ¹¹where^[o] angels being greater in strength and power do not bring a blasphemous judgment against them from the Lord. ¹²But these ones are like unreasoning animals having been born as creatures-of-instinct^[p] for capture and destruction. While blaspheming in^[q] things which they are ignorant, they will also be destroyed in their^[r] destruction^[s], ¹³being wronged as the wages of wrong-doing. Regarding the reveling during the day to be a pleasure, they are spots and blemishes reveling in their deceptions while feasting-with you, ¹⁴having eyes full of an adulteress^[t] and restless^[u] of sin, enticing^[v] unstable souls, having a heart trained in^[w] greed. Children of ^[x] a curse!— ¹⁵leaving-behind the straight way, they went-astray, having followed-after the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of wrong-doing. ¹⁶But he had a rebuke of his own law-violation: a speechless donkey having uttered in the voice of a human restrained the madness of the prophet. ¹⁷These ones are waterless springs, and mists being driven by a storm, for whom the gloom of the darkness has been reserved. ¹⁸For while uttering pompous^[y] words of ^[z] futility^[aa], they entice by the desires of the flesh, by^[ab] sensualities, the ones barely^[ac] escaping-from the ones living in error, ¹⁹promising them freedom, themselves being slaves of corruption. For by what one has been defeated, by this he has been enslaved.

Their Slavery Now Is Worse Than Ever

²⁰For if— having escaped-from the defilements of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and again having been entangled by these things— they^[ad] are defeated, then the last state has become worse for them than the first. ²¹For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than having known, to turn-back from the holy commandment having been delivered to them.

Footnotes

2 Peter 2:4 Or, until.
2 Peter 2:5 That is, eighth along with seven others.
2 Peter 2:7 Or, worn out.
2 Peter 2:7 That is, ones who rebel against what is ‘set down’.
2 Peter 2:8 dwelling... day after day. Or, was day after day tormenting.
2 Peter 2:8 That is, contrary to law.
2 Peter 2:9 Or, from temptation.
2 Peter 2:10 That is, in connection with. Or, with.
2 Peter 2:10 Or, desire.
2 Peter 2:10 a lust for defilement. Or, a desire characterized by defilement, a defiled desire.
2 Peter 2:10 Or, scorning, disregarding.
2 Peter 2:10 Or, lordship, dominion. That is, authority in general; or, the lordship of Christ (denying the Master, 2:1); or, the rule of angels; or, the authority of church leaders.
2 Peter 2:10 Or, Bold, in a negative sense, Presumptuous.
2 Peter 2:10 Or, dignities, majesties. Compare Jude 8-9.
2 Peter 2:11 Or, whereas.
2 Peter 2:12 That is, they live like animals led by their physical appetites to their destruction. Or, of-nature; like unreasoning animals of-nature, having been born for capture. They live like part of the animal kingdom and share their fate.
2 Peter 2:12 That is, in connection with, in the sphere of.
2 Peter 2:12 That is, their own; or, the animals’.
2 Peter 2:12 Or, corruption (as in v 19), taking this word differently here than earlier in the verse.
2 Peter 2:14 That is, full of desire for a woman with whom to commit adultery.
2 Peter 2:14 Or, unceasing, not-resting. That is, eyes restless to continue sinning, or never resting from sinning.
2 Peter 2:14 Or, luring, baiting, entrapping.
2 Peter 2:14 Or, from, by.
2 Peter 2:14 That is, characterized by (accursed children); or, destined to.
2 Peter 2:18 Or, swollen, excessive, bombastic.
2 Peter 2:18 That is, characterized by.
2 Peter 2:18 Or, uselessness, worthlessness.
2 Peter 2:18 Or, for. Or, by the sensual desires of the flesh.
2 Peter 2:18 That is, just beginning to.
2 Peter 2:20 That is, the false teachers (v 17-18a); or, their victims (v 18b-19); or, this may be a general principle referring to all.

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