2 Peter 2:4 - Easy To Read Version

⁴ When angels sinned, God did not let them go free without punishment. No! God sent them to hell. God put those angels in caves of darkness. They are being held there until the judgment.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ For 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;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ For God did not [even] spare angels that sinned, but cast them into hell, delivering them to be kept there in pits of gloom till the judgment and their doom.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

Common English Bible

⁴ God didn’t spare the angels when they sinned but cast them into the lowest level of the underworld and committed them to chains of darkness, keeping them there until the judgment.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ For God did not spare those Angels who sinned, but instead delivered them, as if dragged down by infernal ropes, into the torments of the underworld, to be reserved unto judgment.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but delivered them, drawn down by infernal ropes to the lower hell, unto torments, to be reserved unto judgment:

2 Peter 2:4 Cross References

Job 21:30

Evil people are spared\par when disaster comes.\par They survive when God shows his anger.\par

Job 4:18

Look, God can’t even trust\par his heavenly servants.\par God sees problems even in his angels.\par

Psalm 78:50

God found a way to show his anger.\par He did not let any of those people live.\par He let them die with a deadly disease.\par

Isaiah 14:12

You were like the morning star,\par but you have fallen from the sky.\par In the past, all the nations on earth\par bowed down before you.\par But now you have been cut down.\par

Ezekiel 5:11

The Lord my Master says, “\{Jerusalem,\} I promise by my life \{that I will punish you\}! I promise that I will punish you! Why? Because you did terrible things to my Holy Place. You did horrible things that made it dirty! I will punish you! I won’t show any mercy. I will not feel sorry for you!

Ezekiel 7:4

I won’t show you any mercy.\par I won’t feel sorry for you.\par I am punishing you for the bad things\par you did.\par You have done such terrible things.\par Now, you will know that I am the Lord.”\par

Ezekiel 7:9

I won’t show you any mercy. I won’t feel sorry for you. I am punishing you for the bad things you did. You have done such terrible things. Now, you will know that I am the Lord.

Matthew 25:41

“Then the king will say to those bad people on his left, ‘Go away from me. God has already decided that you will be punished. Go into the fire that burns forever. That fire was prepared for the devil and his angels.

Matthew 8:29

The two men came to Jesus and shouted, “What do you want with us, Son of God? Did you come here to punish us before the right time?”

Luke 10:18

Jesus said to the men, “I saw Satan (the devil) falling like lightning from the sky.

Luke 8:31

The demons begged Jesus not to send them into eternal darkness. {\cf2\super [153]}

John 8:44

Your father is the devil. You belong to him. You want to do what he wants. The devil was a murderer from the beginning. He was always against the truth. There is no truth in him. He is like the lies he tells. Yes, the devil is a liar. He is the father of lies.

Romans 11:21

If God did not let the natural branches of that tree stay, then he will not let you stay \{if you don’t believe\}.

Romans 8:32

He even let his own Son suffer for us. God gave his Son for us all. So with Jesus now, God will surely give us all things.

2 Peter 2:11

The angels are much stronger and more powerful than these false teachers. But even the angels don’t accuse the false teachers and say bad things about them to the Lord.

2 Peter 2:5

And God punished the \{evil\} people who lived long ago. God brought a flood to the world that was full of people who were against God. But God saved Noah and seven other people with Noah. Noah was a man who told people about living right.

2 Peter 2:9

\{Yes, God did all these things.\} So the Lord \{God\} will always save the people who serve him. He will save them when troubles come. And the Lord will hold evil people and punish them while waiting for the day of judgment.

1 John 3:8

The devil has been sinning since the beginning. The person who continues to sin belongs to the devil. The Son of God (Christ) came for this: to destroy the devil’s work.

Revelation 20:10

And Satan (the one who tricked those people) was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur with the animal and the false prophet. {\cf2\super [155]} There they will be tortured (punished) day and night forever and ever.