2 Peter 2:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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; ”

2 Peter 2:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For if God spared not the angels that sinned - The apostle now proceeds to the proof of the proposition that these persons would be punished. It is to be remembered that they had been, or were ev...
2 Peter 2:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast [them] down to (c) hell, and delivered [them] into (d) chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; (c) So the Greeks called the deep dung...
2 Peter 2:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

As there were false prophets in Israel, so there will arise false teachers among the faithful. (Writing from the assumed standpoint of the apostolic age, he projects their coming into the future; in...
2 Peter 2:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

4. For if. We have stated how much it behoves us to know that the ungodly, who by their mischievous opinions corrupt the Church, cannot escape God’s vengeance; and this he proves especially...
2 Peter 2:4 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 2424 GOD THE PUNISHER OF SIN 2 Peter 2:4-9 . 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 judg...
2 Peter 2:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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; For if God spared not the angels - The angels w...
2 Peter 2:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For if God spared not the angels— Some think the sense is suspended till we come to 2 Peter 2:9 and the reddition to be looked for there; that is, If God spared not the angels who sinned, &...
2 Peter 2:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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; If. The consequent member of the sentence is...
2 Peter 2:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Warning Against a Threatened Plague of Brutal False Teachers As of old there were false as well as true prophets, so it will be now. This leads the Apostle to speak about the false teachers, who i...
2 Peter 2:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

For if God. — The sentence has no proper conclusion. The third instance of God’s vengeance is so prolonged by the addition respecting Lot, that the apodosis is wanting, the writer in his eagerness...
2 Peter 2:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 23 THE LORD KNOWETH HOW TO DELIVER 2 Peter 2:1-9 THIS second chapter contains much more of a direct description of the heretical teaching and practices from which the converts were in...
2 Peter 2:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Doom and Deliverance 2 Peter 2:1-11 Already the early Church was threatened with destructive heresies introduced by men who desired only their self-aggrandizement. All the Apostles give warning...
2 Peter 2:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Turning to the subject of the perils threatening the Church, two are referred to - false teachers, and a materialization of mind which follows on such teaching. As in old days there were false prophe...
2 Peter 2:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

"But 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...
2 Peter 2:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For if God spared not the angels that sinned ..... By whom are meant the devil and his angels; who are spirits created by God and as such were good; their first estate which they left was pure and h...
2 Peter 2:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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; Ver. 4. If God spared not the angels ] Thou...
2 Peter 2:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For if Or since , as ει γαρ may be here rendered; God spared not the angels that sinned “The angels seem to have been placed originally in a state of trial. Those who stood are called in Scriptu...
2 Peter 2:4 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

But the true government of God has been hated and rejected -even by men claiming to be Christian. Peter, a true prophet, has forewarned of this in this chapter; and the day has come of which he has p...
2 Peter 2:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Divine Judgments. A. D. 67. --3 Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their d...
2 Peter 2:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell: elsewhere called the deep, Luke 8:31 , and the bottomless pit, Revelation 9:1 , Revelation 11:7 17:8 20:1,3 . Th...
2 Peter 2:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘For if God did not spare not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; The first example is the angels who sinned...
2 Peter 2:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

MISCHIEF-MAKERS AND MISCHIEF-MAKING CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES THE subject treated in this chapter is the mischievous influence of corrupting doctrine. And false doctrine is constantly treat...
2 Peter 2:4 - Sermon Bible Commentary

2 Peter 2:4 We get but few glimpses into other worlds. What we have seen of them suggests that their moral history strongly resembles our own. Sin and suffering, holiness and joy these seem to be...
2 Peter 2:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

2 Peter 2:1 . But there were false prophets also among the people, How true that is still! Be not startled, brethren, as though some strange thing had happened to us in this generation. It always...
2 Peter 2:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Peter 2:1 . False teachers who bring in damnable heresies. Sects leading to perdition, and to the extreme of punishment. Who were they? They were yet to come, in part; the roots only began as ye...
2 Peter 2:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people; rather, as in the Revised Version, but there arose false prophets also among the people. The transition is s...
2 Peter 2:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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;
2 Peter 2:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 3:8 ; 2 Peter 2:11 ; 2 Peter 2:5 ; 2 Peter 2:9 ; Deuteronomy 29:20 ; Ezekiel 5:11 ; Ezekiel 7:4 ; Ezekiel 7:9 ; Isaiah 14:12 ; Job 21:30 ; Job 4:18 ; John 8:44 ; Jude 1:13 ; Jude...
2 Peter 2:4 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Timely Warnings 2 Peter 2:1-22 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It has been said that "to be forewarned is to be forearmed." If God had not told us the things which would surely come, to pass, we would not...
2 Peter 2:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Cast them down to hell — The bottomless pit, a place of unknown misery. Delivered them — Like condemned criminals to safe custody, as if bound with the strongest chains in a dungeon of darkness, to...

2 Peter 2:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Peter 2:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

2 Peter 2:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Peter 2:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

2 Peter 2:4 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

2 Peter 2:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Peter 2:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

2 Peter 2:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Peter 2:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Peter 2:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Peter 2:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Peter 2:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Peter 2:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Peter 2:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Peter 2:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Peter 2:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Peter 2:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Peter 2:4 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Peter 2:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Peter 2:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Peter 2:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2 Peter 2:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Peter 2:4 - Sermon Bible Commentary

2 Peter 2:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

2 Peter 2:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Peter 2:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Peter 2:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Peter 2:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Peter 2:4 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

2 Peter 2:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes