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 and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
• Jude 1:10But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.
• Jude 1:18They said to you that “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”
• Exod 22:28“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
• Rom 1:24–27Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,
• 2 Pet 3:3knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,
• Eph 5:5Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
• Rom 8:12–13So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
• Jude 1:4For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
• Titus 1:7For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
• Eccl 10:20Don’t curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; and don’t curse the rich in your bedroom: for a bird of the sky may carry your voice, and that which has wings may tell the matter.
• Luke 19:14But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’
• Acts 23:5Paul said, “I didn’t know, brothers, that he was high priest. For it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’”
• Col 3:5Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
• Heb 13:4Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
• 1 Cor 6:9Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
• Jude 1:6–8Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
• Deut 21:20–21They shall tell 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 15:30“‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, the same blasphemes Yahweh. That soul shall be cut off from among his people.
• Jer 2:31Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?’
• Num 16:12–15Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, “We won’t come up!
• Deut 17:12–13The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.
• 2 Cor 10:3For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;
• 1 Th 4:7For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
• Ps 12:4who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”
• Ps 2:1–5Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
• Rom 13:1–5Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.
• 2 Sam 20:1There happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!”
• Rom 8:4–5that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
• 1 Kgs 12:16When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion have we in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So Israel departed to their tents.
• Rom 8:1There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
• 1 Sam 10:27But certain worthless fellows said, “How could this man save us?” They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.
• 1 Pet 2:13–14Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;
• Gen 49:6My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.
• Eccl 10:6–7Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place.
• Eph 4:19who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

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