- 1But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
- 2And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
- 3And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
- 4For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
- 5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
- 6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
- 7And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
- 8(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
- 9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
- 10But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
- 11Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
- 12But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
- 13And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
- 14Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
- 15Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
- 16But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
- 17These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
- 18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
- 19While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
- 20For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
- 21For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
- 22But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
KING JAMES VERSION
2 PETER 2
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CHAPTER VISUAL
2 Peter 2 — False teachers exploit unstable souls with empty promises, but God knows how to deliver the godly and reserve the unjust for judgment.
About this illustration
The deceptive feast, empty well, rainless tempest, and ordinary donkey compress the chapter’s warnings without literalizing every earlier judgment or animal proverb. Sensual sin and punishment remain non-graphic.
Scripture basis: 2 Peter 2:1–22King James Version · Standardized 1769 text with Strong’s numbering · Public domain outside the United Kingdom
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Sinning angels are cast into gloomy confinement and held for judgment.
Immediately after the fallen angels, both traditions turn to Noah and preservation through the Flood.
Archaeological Evidence
ARCHAEOLOGY EVIDENCEInscription
before or during the AD 79 destruction of Pompeii, if the reading and ancient dating are correct
Pompeii Sodom and Gomorrah Graffito
A now-lost or poorly preserved wall graffito from Pompeii traditionally read as naming Sodom and Gomorrah. Potentially witnesses first-century knowledge and reuse of the Genesis destruction tradition in a Roman city.
Genesis 19:23–29 · Luke 17:28–32 · 2 Peter 2:6–9
ARCHAEOLOGY EVIDENCEManuscript
Late sixth century AD for the 1 Enoch hands; the final added leaf may be seventh century
Codex Panopolitanus: The Akhmim Greek Book of the Watchers
A late-sixth-century parchment codex from Egypt preserves 1 Enoch 1:1–32:6 in Greek, plus a duplicated passage from 19:3–21:9, alongside early Christian apocalyptic works.
Genesis 5:21–24 · Genesis 6:1–4 · Jude 1:14–15
ARCHAEOLOGY EVIDENCEManuscript
Approximately AD 1500–1525, dated palaeographically
British Library Or 485: A Complete Geʽez Witness to 1 Enoch
A Geʽez manuscript copied about 1500–1525 preserves the complete Ethiopic Book of Enoch on folios 102r–190r and documents the tradition through which the whole work survived.
Genesis 5:21–24 · Genesis 5:28–32 · Genesis 6:1–9
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