2 Peter 2:4

If God did not spare even angels when they sinned but cast them into chains of darkness awaiting judgment, the false teachers will not escape. It matters because it proves God's certain judgment on all rebellion, however exalted the rebel.

Cross-references · 25

• Jude 1:6Angels 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.
• Matt 25:41Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
• Rom 8:32He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
• Rev 20:1–3I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
• Rev 12:7–9There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war.
• Isa 14:12How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!
• Rev 20:10The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
• Ezek 7:4My eye will not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations will be among you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’
• Luke 10:18He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.
• Ezek 5:11Therefore as I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you. My eye won’t spare, and I will have no pity.
• 1 Jn 3:8He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.
• Job 4:18Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.
• Luke 8:31They begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss.
• 2 Pet 2:5and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;
• 2 Pet 2:11whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don’t bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord.
• John 8:44You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.
• Matt 8:29Behold, they cried out, saying, “What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”
• Mark 5:7and crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don’t torment me.”
• 2 Pet 2:9the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;
• Ezek 7:9My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. I will bring on you according to your ways. Your abominations will be among you; and you will know that I, Yahweh, strike.
• Rom 11:21for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
• Deut 29:20Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
• Jude 1:13wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
• Job 21:30that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?
• Ps 78:50He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,

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