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2 Peter 2:5

2 Peter chapter 2 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And 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;

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

Context

v.4For 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;

v.5This passage

v.6and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, having made them an example unto those that should live ungodly;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Genesis 6:1

    And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born unto them,

  • Luke 17:26

    And as it came to pass in the days of Noah, even so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

  • Matthew 24:37

    And as were the days of Noah, so shall be the coming of the Son of man.

  • 2 Peter 3:6

    by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

  • Job 22:15

    Wilt thou keep the old way Which wicked men have trodden?

  • Jude 1:14

    And to these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,