[a]And many shall follow their destructions, by whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

[b]And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make [c]merchandise of you, [d]whose condemnation long since resteth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.

For if God spared not the (A)Angels that had sinned, but cast them down into [e]hell, and delivered them into [f]chains of darkness, to be kept unto damnation:

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:2 There shall not only be heresies, but also many followers of them.
  2. 2 Peter 2:3 Covetousness for the most part is a companion of heresy, and maketh merchandise even of souls.
  3. 2 Peter 2:3 They will abuse you, and sell you as they sell cattle in a Fair.
  4. 2 Peter 2:3 A comfort for the godly: God who cast the Angels that fell away from him headlong into the darkness of hell, at length to be judged, and who destroyed the old world with the flood, and preserved Noah the eight person, and who burned Sodom, and saved Lot, will deliver his elect from these errors, and will utterly destroy those unrighteous.
  5. 2 Peter 2:4 So the Greeks called the deep dungeon under the earth, which should be appointed to torment the souls of the wicked in.
  6. 2 Peter 2:4 Bound them with darkness as it were with chains: and by darkness, he meaneth that most miserable state of life, that is full of horror.

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