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2 Peter 2:10 KJV
2 Peter · chapter 2 · verse 10
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.2 Peter 2:10 · King James Version
2 Peter 2:10 in context
8(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
10But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
11Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
12But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
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Key words (Strong's)
- governmentkyriotēsdominion, power, lordship, in the NT one who possesses dominionG2963 →
- selfwilledauthadēsself-pleasing, self-willed, arrogantG829 →
- chieflymalistaespecially, chiefly, most of all, above allG3122 →
- despisekataphroneōto contemn, despise, disdain, think little or nothing ofG2706 →
- afteropisōback, behind, after, afterwards, of place things that are behind, of time afterG3694 →
- fleshsarxflesh of both man and beasts, the body, the body of a man, used of natural or physical…G4561 →
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The apostle's design being to warn us of, and arm us against, seducers, he now returns to discourse more particularly of them, and give us an account of their character and conduct, which abundantly justifies the righteous Judge of the world in reserving them in an especial manner for the most severe and heavy doom,…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-22