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2 Peter 2:10–12

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But 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.
Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
But 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;
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From verse 10

  1. Jude 1:16Rank 1 from verse 10
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    16These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.

  2. Jude 1:10Rank 2 from verse 10
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    10But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

  3. Exodus 22:28Rank 3 from verse 10
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    28¶ Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.

  4. Jude 1:18Rank 4 from verse 10
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    18How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

  5. 2 Peter 3:3Rank 5 from verse 10
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    3Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

  6. Romans 1:24–27Rank 6 from verse 10
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    24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

    25Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

    26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

    27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

  7. Ephesians 5:5Rank 7 from verse 10
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    5For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

  8. Jude 1:4Rank 8 from verse 10
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    4For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

  9. Romans 8:12–13Rank 9 from verse 10
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    12Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

    13For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

  10. 1 Corinthians 6:9Rank 10 from verse 10
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    9Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

  11. Acts 23:5Rank 11 from verse 10
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    5Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.

  12. Colossians 3:5Rank 12 from verse 10
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    5Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

  13. Ecclesiastes 10:20Rank 13 from verse 10
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    20¶ Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

  14. Hebrews 13:4Rank 14 from verse 10
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    4Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

  15. Jude 1:6–8Rank 15 from verse 10
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    6And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

    7Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

    8Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

  16. Luke 19:14Rank 16 from verse 10
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    14But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.

  17. Titus 1:7Rank 17 from verse 10
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    7For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

  18. 1 Kings 12:16Rank 18 from verse 10
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    16¶ So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.

  19. 1 Peter 2:13–14Rank 19 from verse 10
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    13Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

    14Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.

  20. 1 Samuel 10:27Rank 20 from verse 10
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    27But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.

  21. 1 Thessalonians 4:7Rank 21 from verse 10
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    7For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

  22. 2 Corinthians 10:3Rank 22 from verse 10
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    3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:

  23. 2 Samuel 20:1Rank 23 from verse 10
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    1AND there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.

  24. Deuteronomy 17:12–13Rank 24 from verse 10
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    12And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the Lord thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.

    13And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

  25. Deuteronomy 21:20–21Rank 25 from verse 10
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    20And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

    21And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

  26. Jeremiah 2:31Rank 26 from verse 10
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    31¶ O generation, see ye the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?

  27. Numbers 15:30Rank 27 from verse 10
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    30¶ But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

  28. Numbers 16:12–15Rank 28 from verse 10
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    12¶ And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up:

    13Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?

    14Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.

    15And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the Lord, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.

  29. Psalms 12:4Rank 29 from verse 10
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    4Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

  30. Psalms 2:1–5Rank 30 from verse 10
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    1WHY do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

    2The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,

    3Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

    4He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

    5Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

  31. Romans 13:1–5Rank 31 from verse 10
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    1LET every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

    2Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

    3For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:

    4For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

    5Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.

  32. Romans 8:1Rank 32 from verse 10
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    1THERE is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

  33. Romans 8:4–5Rank 33 from verse 10
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    4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

    5For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

  34. Ecclesiastes 10:6–7Rank 34 from verse 10
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    6Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.

    7I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.

  35. Ephesians 4:19Rank 35 from verse 10
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    19Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

  36. Genesis 49:6Rank 36 from verse 10
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    6O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.

From verse 11

  1. Jude 1:9Rank 1 from verse 11
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    9Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

  2. 2 Thessalonians 1:7Rank 2 from verse 11
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    7And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,

  3. Daniel 6:22Rank 3 from verse 11
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    22My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.

  4. Psalms 103:20Rank 4 from verse 11
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    20Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.

  5. Psalms 104:4Rank 5 from verse 11
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    4Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:

From verse 12

  1. Jude 1:10Rank 1 from verse 12
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    10But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

  2. Jeremiah 12:3Rank 2 from verse 12
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    3But thou, O Lord, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

  3. 2 Peter 2:19Rank 3 from verse 12
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    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.

  4. Galatians 6:8Rank 4 from verse 12
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    8For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

  5. Psalms 92:6Rank 5 from verse 12
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    6A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

  6. Jeremiah 10:21Rank 6 from verse 12
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    21For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the Lord: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

  7. Jeremiah 10:8Rank 7 from verse 12
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    8But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

  8. Jeremiah 4:22Rank 8 from verse 12
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    22For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

  9. Proverbs 14:32Rank 9 from verse 12
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    32The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

  10. 2 Peter 1:4Rank 10 from verse 12
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    4Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

  11. Ezekiel 21:31Rank 11 from verse 12
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    31And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.

  12. Jeremiah 5:4Rank 12 from verse 12
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    4Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the judgment of their God.

  13. John 8:21Rank 13 from verse 12
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    21Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.

  14. Psalms 49:10Rank 14 from verse 12
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    10For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

  15. Psalms 94:8Rank 15 from verse 12
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    8Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

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2 Peter 2:10

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but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

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after

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1. Later than or following in time or order. 2. Behind. 3. In pursuit of.

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flesh

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Sense 1: The soft substance of the body. Sense 2: The body, human nature, kindred, or mankind.

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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lust

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Sense 1: Strong desire, craving, or appetite. Sense 2: To desire or crave.

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uncleanness

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Sense 1: Bodily or ceremonial impurity, foulness, dirtiness, or filthiness. Sense 2: Moral impurity, defilement by sin, or lewdness.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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speak

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Sense 1: To utter words or articulate sounds, or to use a language. Sense 2: To address or converse with someone. Sense 3: To state, declare, make mention of, or otherwise make a matter known.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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evil

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Sense 1: Moral wickedness, sin, wrong, or corruption. Sense 2: Harm, misery, calamity, adversity, or punishment.

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DEFINED WORDS

2 Peter 2:11

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whereas

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1. Considering that. 2. While or when in fact. 3. In contrast to the fact that.

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angels

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Sense 1: Messengers. Sense 2: Heavenly or spiritual messengers, whether holy or fallen as stated.

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which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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power

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Sense 1: Ability, strength, force, or effective capacity to act, prevail, or produce an effect. Sense 2: Authority, right, permission, rule, dominion, or control. Sense 3: A person, authority, host, spiritual being, or other agent possessing or manifesting power.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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might

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Sense 1: Power or strength. Sense 2: An auxiliary expressing possibility or permission.

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railing

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Present-participial or verbal-noun form of rail, meaning to abuse, insult, revile, scorn, or speak bitterly and accusingly against someone.

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accusation

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A charge or allegation of wrongdoing; the act or stated matter of accusing someone.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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against

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Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

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before

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Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank.

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Lord

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1. A title of God or Jesus Christ acknowledging authority and rule. 2. A respectful title or address for one in authority.

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DEFINED WORDS

2 Peter 2:12

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but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

natural

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Belonging to birth, bodily life, ordinary created nature, native relation, or instinct.

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made

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Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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taken

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1. Received, accepted, or chosen. 2. Seized or captured. 3. Carried or laid hold of.

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destroyed

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Past-tense or past-participial form of destroy. Sense 1: Ruined, demolished, consumed, or laid waste. Sense 2: Killed or cut off. Sense 3: Caused a thing's structure, use, activity, or present condition to cease.

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speak

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Sense 1: To utter words or articulate sounds, or to use a language. Sense 2: To address or converse with someone. Sense 3: To state, declare, make mention of, or otherwise make a matter known.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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evil

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Sense 1: Moral wickedness, sin, wrong, or corruption. Sense 2: Harm, misery, calamity, adversity, or punishment.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

perish

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Sense 1: Of a living person or creature, to die, be killed, be destroyed, or be lost. Sense 2: Of a thing, condition, plan, thought, or work, to be ruined, decay, fail, vanish, or come to nothing.

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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corruption

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Sense 1: Decay, rottenness, spoilage, defect, ruin, or dissolution. Sense 2: Moral depravity.

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2:1BUT 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.

2:2And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

2:3And 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.

2:4For 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;

2:5And 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;

2:6And 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;

2:7And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

2:8(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

2:9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

2:10But 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.

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2:11Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.

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2:12But 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;

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2:13And 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;

2:14Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

2:15Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

2:16But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

2:17These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

2:18For 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.

2:19While 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.

2:20For 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.

2:21For 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.

2:22But 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.

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