2 Peter 2:10

Judgment falls especially on those who indulge corrupt desires and despise authority, being bold and arrogant enough to slander glorious beings. It matters because contempt for God-given authority marks the false teachers' rebellion.

Cross-references · 36

• Jude 1:16These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage.
• Jude 1:10These men, however, slander what they do not understand, and like irrational animals, they will be destroyed by the things they do instinctively.
• Jude 1:18when they said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow after their own ungodly desires.”
• Exod 22:28You must not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.
• Rom 1:24–27Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.
• 2 Pet 3:3Most importantly, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
• Eph 5:5For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
• Rom 8:12–13Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.
• Jude 1:4For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
• Titus 1:7As God’s steward, an overseer must be above reproach—not self-absorbed, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not greedy for money.
• Eccl 10:20Do not curse the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich even in your bedroom, for a bird of the air may carry your words, and a winged creature may report your speech.
• Luke 19:14But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
• Acts 23:5“Brothers,” Paul replied, “I was not aware that he was the high priest, for it is written: ‘Do not speak evil about the ruler of your people.’”
• Col 3:5Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
• Heb 13:4Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
• 1 Cor 6:9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
• Jude 1:6–8And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.
• Deut 21:20–21and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
• Num 15:30But the person who sins defiantly, whether a native or foreigner, blasphemes the LORD. That person shall be cut off from among his people.
• Jer 2:31You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to You no more’?
• Num 16:12–15Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said, “We will not come!
• Deut 17:12–13But the man who acts presumptuously, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, or to the judge, must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.
• 2 Cor 10:3For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.
• 1 Th 4:7For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.
• Ps 12:4They say, “With our tongues we will prevail. We own our lips—who can be our master?”
• Ps 2:1–5Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
• Rom 13:1–5Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which is from God. The authorities that exist have been appointed by God.
• 2 Sam 20:1Now a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram’s horn and shouted: “We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse’s son. Every man to his tent, O Israel!”
• Rom 8:4–5so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
• 1 Kgs 12:16When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So the Israelites went home,
• Rom 8:1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
• 1 Sam 10:27But some worthless men said, “How can this man save us?” So they despised him and brought him no gifts; but Saul remained silent about it.
• 1 Pet 2:13–14Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to the king as the supreme authority,
• Gen 49:6May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.
• Eccl 10:6–7Folly is appointed to great heights, but the rich sit in lowly positions.
• Eph 4:19Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.

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