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2 Peter 2:5 KJV
2 Peter · chapter 2 · verse 5
And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;2 Peter 2:5 · King James Version
2 Peter 2:5 in context
3And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
4For 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;
5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
7And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
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Key words (Strong's)
- righteousnessdikaiosynēin a broad sense state of him who is as he ought to be, righteousness, the condition…G1343 →
- ungodlyasebēsdestitute of reverential awe towards God, condemning God, impiousG765 →
- sparedpheidomaito spare, to abstainG5339 →
- eighthogdoosthe eighthG3590 →
- worldkosmosan apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government, ornament…G2889 →
- savedphylassōto guard, to watch, keep watch, to guard or watch, have an eye upon lest he escape, to…G5442 →
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Men are apt to think that a reprieve is the forerunner of a pardon, and that if judgment be not speedily executed it is, or will be, certainly reversed. But the apostle tells us that how successful and prosperous soever false teachers may be, and that for a time, yet their judgment lingereth not.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 3-6