2 Peter 2:4-6
1599 Geneva Bible
4 For if God spared not the (A)Angels that had sinned, but cast them down into [a]hell, and delivered them into [b]chains of darkness, to be kept unto damnation:
5 Neither hath spared the [c]old world, but saved (B)Noah the eighth person a [d]preacher of righteousness, and brought in the Flood upon the world of the ungodly,
6 And (C)turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them and overthrew them, and made them an ensample unto them that after should live ungodly,
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- 2 Peter 2:4 So the Greeks called the deep dungeon under the earth, which should be appointed to torment the souls of the wicked in.
- 2 Peter 2:4 Bound them with darkness as it were with chains: and by darkness, he meaneth that most miserable state of life, that is full of horror.
- 2 Peter 2:5 Which was before the Flood: not that God made a new world, but because the world seemed new.
- 2 Peter 2:5 For he ceased not for the space of an hundred and twenty years to warn the wicked both by word and deed, what wrath of God hanged over their heads.
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