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 are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
• Jude 1:10But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
• Jude 1:18How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
• Exod 22:28Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.
• Rom 1:24–27Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
• 2 Pet 3:3Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
• Eph 5:5For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
• Rom 8:12–13Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
• Jude 1:4For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Titus 1:7For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
• Eccl 10:20Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
• Luke 19:14But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
• Acts 23:5Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.
• Col 3:5Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
• Heb 13:4Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
• 1 Cor 6:9Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
• Jude 1:6–8And 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.
• Deut 21:20–21And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
• Num 15:30But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
• Jer 2:31O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
• Num 16:12–15And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up:
• Deut 17:12–13And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.
• 2 Cor 10:3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
• 1 Th 4:7For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
• Ps 12:4Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
• Ps 2:1–5Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
• Rom 13:1–5Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
• 2 Sam 20:1And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.
• Rom 8:4–5That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
• 1 Kgs 12:16So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.
• Rom 8:1There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
• 1 Sam 10:27But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.
• 1 Pet 2:13–14Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
• Gen 49:6O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
• Eccl 10:6–7Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.
• Eph 4:19Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

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