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He threw them into hell, in gloomy pits of darkness, where they are being held until the day of judgment. <a href="/esv/2_peter/2.htm">English Standard Version</a> For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; <a href="/bsb/2_peter/2.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; <a href="/blb/2_peter/2.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> For if God did not spare the angels having sinned, but having cast them down to Tartarus, in chains of gloomy darkness, delivered them, being kept for judgment; <a href="/kjv/2_peter/2.htm">King James Bible</a> 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; <a href="/nkjv/2_peter/2.htm">New King James Version</a> For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; <a href="/nasb_/2_peter/2.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, held for judgment; <a href="/nasb/2_peter/2.htm">NASB 1995</a> For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment; <a href="/nasb77/2_peter/2.htm">NASB 1977 </a> For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment; <a href="/lsb/2_peter/2.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> For if God did not spare angels who sinned, but cast them into the pit and delivered them to chains of darkness, being kept for judgment; <a href="/amp/2_peter/2.htm">Amplified Bible</a> For if God did not [even] spare angels that sinned, but threw them into hell and sent them to pits of gloom to be kept [there] for judgment; <a href="/csb/2_peter/2.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> For if God didn’t spare the angels who sinned but cast them into hell and delivered them in chains of utter darkness to be kept for judgment; <a href="/hcsb/2_peter/2.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> For if God didn&#8217t spare the angels who sinned but threw them down into Tartarus and delivered them to be kept in chains of darkness until judgment; <a href="/asv/2_peter/2.htm">American Standard Version</a> 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; <a href="/cev/2_peter/2.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> God did not have pity on the angels that sinned. He had them tied up and thrown into the dark pits of hell until the time of judgment. <a href="/erv/2_peter/2.htm">English Revised Version</a> 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; <a href="/gwt/2_peter/2.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> God didn't spare angels who sinned. He threw them into hell, where he has secured them with chains of darkness and is holding them for judgment. <a href="/gnt/2_peter/2.htm">Good News Translation</a> God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell, where they are kept chained in darkness, waiting for the Day of Judgment. <a href="/isv/2_peter/2.htm">International Standard Version</a> For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but threw them into the lowest hell and imprisoned them in chains of deepest darkness, holding them for judgment; <a href="/msb/2_peter/2.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; <a href="/net/2_peter/2.htm">NET Bible</a> For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell and locked them up in chains in utter darkness, to be kept until the judgment, <a href="/nheb/2_peter/2.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to the lower parts of hell, and committed them to chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; <a href="/wbt/2_peter/2.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> 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 to judgment; <a href="/wey/2_peter/2.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> For God did not spare angels when they had sinned, but hurling them down to Tartarus consigned them to caves of darkness, keeping them in readiness for judgement. <a href="/web/2_peter/2.htm">World English Bible</a> For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgment; <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/2_peter/2.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> For if God did not spare messengers having sinned, but having cast [them] down to Tartarus with chains of deepest gloom, delivered [them], having been reserved to judgment, <a href="/blb/2_peter/2.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> For if God did not spare the angels having sinned, but having cast them down to Tartarus, in chains of gloomy darkness, delivered them, being kept for judgment; <a href="/ylt/2_peter/2.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast them down to Tartarus, did deliver them to judgment, having been reserved, <a href="/slt/2_peter/2.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> For if God spared not the angels having sinned, but delivered up, hurled into Tartarus, to cords of darkness, having been kept for judgment;<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/2_peter/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> 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: <a href="/cpdv/2_peter/2.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> 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. <a href="/nabre/2_peter/2.htm">New American Bible</a> For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but condemned them to the chains of Tartarus and handed them over to be kept for judgment; <a href="/nrsvce/2_peter/2.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of deepest darkness to be kept until the judgment;<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/2_peter/2.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> God did not spare the angels, who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for tormenting judgment; <a href="/aramaic-plain-english/2_peter/2.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a> And if God did not spare the Angels who sinned, but cast them down in chains of darkness into the lowest depths and handed them over to be kept for the judgment of torment,<div class="vheading2">NT Translations</div><a href="/anderson/2_peter/2.htm">Anderson New Testament</a> For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and delivered them over to chains of darkness, to be kept for judgment; <a href="/godbey/2_peter/2.htm">Godbey New Testament</a> For if God spared not the angels who sinned, but having sent them down to hell, committed them to chains of darkness to be kept unto judgment; <a href="/haweis/2_peter/2.htm">Haweis New Testament</a> For if God spared not the angels when they sinned, but casting them bound in chains of darkness into hell, delivered them to be kept fast until the judgment; <a href="/mace/2_peter/2.htm">Mace New Testament</a> for since God did not spare the angels, who had sinned, but having precipitated them to hell, confin'd them to chains of darkness, where they are reserv'd for judgment: <a href="/wey/2_peter/2.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> For God did not spare angels when they had sinned, but hurling them down to Tartarus consigned them to caves of darkness, keeping them in readiness for judgement. <a href="/worrell/2_peter/2.htm">Worrell New Testament</a> For, if God spared not angels that sinned, but, hurling them down to Hell, delivered them up to pits of darkness, kept for judgment; <a href="/worsley/2_peter/2.htm">Worsley New Testament</a> 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 judgement; and if He spared not the old world, <a href="/parallel/2_peter/2-4.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gzcat0SlE18?start=250" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/2_peter/2.htm">Deliverance from False Prophets</a> …3In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep. 4<a href="/greek/1063.htm" title="1063: gar (Conj) -- For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.">For</a> <a href="/greek/1487.htm" title="1487: Ei (Conj) -- If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.">if</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: ho (Art-NMS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/2316.htm" title="2316: Theos (N-NMS) -- A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.">God</a> <a href="/greek/3756.htm" title="3756: ouk (Adv) -- No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not.">did not</a> <a href="/greek/5339.htm" title="5339: epheisato (V-AIM-3S) -- To spare, abstain, forbear. Of uncertain affinity; to be chary of, i.e. to abstain or to treat leniently.">spare</a> <a href="/greek/32.htm" title="32: angelōn (N-GMP) -- From aggello; a messenger; especially an angel; by implication, a pastor.">the angels</a> <a href="/greek/264.htm" title="264: hamartēsantōn (V-APA-GMP) -- Perhaps from a and the base of meros; properly, to miss the mark, i.e. to err, especially to sin.">when they sinned,</a> <a href="/greek/235.htm" title="235: alla (Conj) -- But, except, however. Neuter plural of allos; properly, other things, i.e. contrariwise.">but</a> <a href="/greek/5020.htm" title="5020: tartarōsas (V-APA-NMS) -- To thrust down to Tartarus or Gehenna. From Tartaros; to incarcerate in eternal torment.">cast them deep into hell,</a> <a href="/greek/3860.htm" title="3860: paredōken (V-AIA-3S) -- From para and didomi; to surrender, i.e yield up, intrust, transmit.">placing them</a> <a href="/greek/4577.htm" title="4577: seirais (N-DFP) -- A chain. Probably from suro through its congener eiro; a chain.">in chains</a> <a href="/greek/2217.htm" title="2217: zophou (N-GMS) -- Darkness, murkiness, gloom. Akin to the base of nephos; gloom.">of darkness</a> <a href="/greek/5083.htm" title="5083: tēroumenous (V-PPM/P-AMP) -- From teros; to guard, i.e. To note; by implication, to detain; by extension, to withhold; by extension, to withhold.">to be held</a> <a href="/greek/1519.htm" title="1519: eis (Prep) -- A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.">for</a> <a href="/greek/2920.htm" title="2920: krisin (N-AFS) -- Decision; by extension, a tribunal; by implication, justice.">judgment;</a> 5if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/jude/1-6.htm">Jude 1:6</a> And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day. <a href="/genesis/6-1.htm">Genesis 6:1-4</a> Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them, / the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose. / So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.” ... <a href="/revelation/12-7.htm">Revelation 12:7-9</a> Then a war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. / But the dragon was not strong enough, and no longer was any place found in heaven for him and his angels. / And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him. <a href="/matthew/25-41.htm">Matthew 25:41</a> Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. <a href="/1_peter/3-19.htm">1 Peter 3:19-20</a> in whom He also went and preached to the spirits in prison / who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water. <a href="/job/4-18.htm">Job 4:18</a> If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error, <a href="/revelation/20-1.htm">Revelation 20:1-3</a> Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain. / He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. / And he threw him into the Abyss, shut it, and sealed it over him, so that he could not deceive the nations until the thousand years were complete. After that, he must be released for a brief period of time. <a href="/isaiah/14-12.htm">Isaiah 14:12-15</a> How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations. / You said in your heart: “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north. / I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.” ... <a href="/ezekiel/28-12.htm">Ezekiel 28:12-17</a> “Son of man, take up a lament for the king of Tyre and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. / You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation. / You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for I had ordained you. You were on the holy mountain of God; you walked among the fiery stones. ... <a href="/luke/10-18.htm">Luke 10:18</a> So He told them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. <a href="/hebrews/2-2.htm">Hebrews 2:2</a> For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every transgression and disobedience received its just punishment, <a href="/1_corinthians/6-3.htm">1 Corinthians 6:3</a> Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! <a href="/john/8-44.htm">John 8:44</a> You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies. <a href="/revelation/9-1.htm">Revelation 9:1-2</a> Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the Abyss. / The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit. <a href="/romans/6-23.htm">Romans 6:23</a> For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>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 to judgment;spared.<a href="/2_peter/2-5.htm">2 Peter 2:5</a> 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;<a href="/deuteronomy/29-20.htm">Deuteronomy 29:20</a> The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.<a href="/psalms/78-50.htm">Psalm 78:50</a> He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;the angels.<a href="/job/4-18.htm">Job 4:18</a> Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:<a href="/luke/10-18.htm">Luke 10:18</a> And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.<a href="/john/8-44.htm">John 8:44</a> Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.but.<a href="/isaiah/14-12.htm">Isaiah 14:12</a> How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!<a href="/matthew/8-29.htm">Matthew 8:29</a> And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?<a href="/matthew/25-41.htm">Matthew 25:41</a> Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:into.<a href="/2_peter/2-11.htm">2 Peter 2:11</a> Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.<a href="/jude/1-6.htm">Jude 1:6</a> And 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.to be.<a href="/2_peter/2-9.htm">2 Peter 2:9</a> The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:<a href="/job/21-30.htm">Job 21:30</a> That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.<a href="/jude/1-13.htm">Jude 1:13</a> Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/1_peter/3-22.htm">Angels</a> <a href="/1_peter/5-7.htm">Cast</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-38.htm">Caves</a> <a href="/hebrews/13-3.htm">Chains</a> <a href="/1_peter/2-23.htm">Committed</a> <a href="/romans/11-32.htm">Consigned</a> <a href="/1_peter/2-9.htm">Darkness</a> <a href="/jonah/2-2.htm">Deepest</a> <a href="/1_peter/1-18.htm">Delivered</a> <a href="/2_peter/1-11.htm">Eternal</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-2.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/james/4-9.htm">Gloom</a> <a href="/mark/10-22.htm">Gloomy</a> <a href="/james/3-6.htm">Hell</a> <a href="/luke/23-39.htm">Hurling</a> <a href="/1_peter/4-6.htm">Judged</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-3.htm">Judgement</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-3.htm">Judgment</a> <a href="/1_peter/4-19.htm">Keeping</a> <a href="/1_peter/3-20.htm">Kept</a> <a href="/ezekiel/32-24.htm">Nether</a> <a href="/2_timothy/1-4.htm">Night</a> <a href="/zephaniah/2-9.htm">Pits</a> <a href="/1_peter/3-8.htm">Pity</a> <a href="/2_peter/1-14.htm">Putting</a> <a href="/ephesians/6-15.htm">Readiness</a> <a href="/1_peter/1-4.htm">Reserved</a> <a href="/1_peter/2-22.htm">Sinned</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/13-2.htm">Spare</a> <a href="/romans/11-21.htm">Spared</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/2_peter/2-11.htm">Angels</a> <a href="/1_john/4-18.htm">Cast</a> <a href="/revelation/6-15.htm">Caves</a> <a href="/jude/1-6.htm">Chains</a> <a href="/jude/1-15.htm">Committed</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-10.htm">Consigned</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-17.htm">Darkness</a> <a href="/1_samuel/24-3.htm">Deepest</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-7.htm">Delivered</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-17.htm">Eternal</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-10.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-17.htm">Gloom</a> <a href="/job/3-7.htm">Gloomy</a> <a href="/revelation/1-18.htm">Hell</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/12-2.htm">Hurling</a> <a href="/revelation/3-2.htm">Judged</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-9.htm">Judgement</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-9.htm">Judgment</a> <a href="/2_peter/3-9.htm">Keeping</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-5.htm">Kept</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-17.htm">Nether</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-17.htm">Night</a> <a href="/genesis/14-10.htm">Pits</a> <a href="/jude/1-22.htm">Pity</a> <a href="/2_peter/3-1.htm">Putting</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-9.htm">Readiness</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-17.htm">Reserved</a> <a href="/1_john/1-10.htm">Sinned</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-5.htm">Spare</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-5.htm">Spared</a><div class="vheading2">2 Peter 2</div>1. <a href="/2_peter/2-1.htm">Peter warns of false teachers, showing the impiety and punishment both of them and their followers;</a> 7. <a href="/2_peter/2-7.htm">from which the godly shall be delivered, as Lot was out of Sodom;</a> 10. <a href="/2_peter/2-10.htm">and more fully describes the manners of those profane and blasphemous seducers.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/2_peter/2.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/2_peter/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/2_peter/2.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned This phrase refers to a specific event where certain angels sinned against God. The sin of these angels is often linked to <a href="/genesis/6.htm">Genesis 6:1-4</a>, where "the sons of God" are interpreted by some as angels who took human wives, leading to the Nephilim. <a href="/jude/1-6.htm">Jude 1:6</a> also references angels who did not keep their proper domain, suggesting a rebellion against God's order. This serves as a warning that even beings of great power and proximity to God are not exempt from His judgment.but cast them deep into hell The term "hell" here is translated from the Greek word "Tartarus," which in Greek mythology is a deep abyss used as a dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked. This is the only occurrence of this term in the New Testament, indicating a place of severe punishment. It emphasizes the severity of the angels' sin and the extent of God's judgment.placing them in chains of darkness This imagery of chains and darkness symbolizes the complete restraint and separation from God's light and presence. The "chains" suggest a binding that prevents any escape or further rebellion, while "darkness" often represents evil, judgment, and the absence of God's presence (see <a href="/jude/1-6.htm">Jude 1:6</a> and <a href="/matthew/8-12.htm">Matthew 8:12</a>). This serves as a metaphor for the spiritual and moral consequences of their actions.to be held for judgment This indicates that the punishment of these angels is not yet complete but that they are being reserved for a future, final judgment. This aligns with <a href="/revelation/20-10.htm">Revelation 20:10</a>, where the ultimate judgment of Satan and his followers is described. It underscores the certainty of God's justice and the eventual accountability for all beings, both human and angelic.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God</a> The sovereign Creator and Judge who exercises authority over all creation, including angels. 2. <a href="/topical/a/angels.htm">Angels</a> Spiritual beings created by God, some of whom sinned and were cast into hell. 3. <a href="/topical/h/hell.htm">Hell (Tartarus)</a> A place of confinement and punishment for the fallen angels, distinct from the final judgment. 4. <a href="/topical/c/chains_of_darkness.htm">Chains of Darkness</a> Symbolic of the restraint and punishment of the fallen angels, indicating their current state of awaiting judgment. 5. <a href="/topical/j/judgment.htm">Judgment</a> The future event when God will execute final justice on all beings, including the fallen angels.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_seriousness_of_sin.htm">The Seriousness of Sin</a> Even angels, who are powerful and close to God, are not exempt from the consequences of sin. This underscores the seriousness with which God views sin. <a href="/topical/g/god's_justice.htm">God's Justice</a> God's judgment is impartial and just. He did not spare the angels, demonstrating that His justice applies to all, regardless of status. <a href="/topical/t/the_reality_of_spiritual_warfare.htm">The Reality of Spiritual Warfare</a> The existence of fallen angels highlights the reality of spiritual warfare. Believers must be vigilant and rely on God's strength. <a href="/topical/h/hope_in_god's_sovereignty.htm">Hope in God's Sovereignty</a> Despite the presence of evil, God is in control. The fallen angels are restrained, and their judgment is certain, offering hope to believers. <a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_obedience.htm">The Importance of Obedience</a> The fate of the angels serves as a warning to remain obedient to God, emphasizing the importance of faithfulness in the Christian walk.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_2_peter_2.htm">Top 10 Lessons from 2 Peter 2</a> <a href="/q/how_do_angels_sin_in_sinless_heaven.htm">How can angels sin if heaven is sinless?</a> <a href="/q/how_does_science_view_fallen_angels.htm">2 Peter 2:4 references fallen angels; how can this be reconciled with scientific understanding of supernatural beings? </a> <a href="/q/what_are_the_different_types_of_demons.htm">What are the different types of demons?</a> <a href="/q/what_defines_christian_demonology.htm">What defines Christian demonology?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/2_peter/2.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(4-8) Three instances of divine vengeance, proving that great wickedness never goes unpunished.(4) 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 having lost the thread of the construction. The three instances here are in chronological order (wanton angels, Flood, Sodom and Gomorrha), while those in Jude are not (unbelievers in the wilderness, impure angels, Sodom and Gomorrha). Both arrangements are natural--this as being chronological, that of St. Jude for reasons stated in the Notes there. (See on <a href="/2_peter/2-5.htm" title="And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;">2Peter 2:5</a>.)The angels that sinned.--Better, the angels for their sin: it gives the reason why they were not spared, and points to some definite sin. What sin is meant? Not that which preceded the history of the human race, commonly called the fall of the angels--of that there is no record in the Old Testament; and, moreover, it affords no close analogy to the conduct of the false teachers. St. Jude is somewhat more explicit (<a href="/jude/1-6.htm" title="And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness to the judgment of the great day.">Jude 1:6</a>); he says it was for not keeping their own dignity--for deserting their proper home; and the reference, both there and here, is either to a common interpretation of <a href="/genesis/6-2.htm" title="That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.">Genesis 6:2</a> (that by "the sons of God" are meant "angels"), or, more probably, to distinct and frequent statements in the Book of Enoch, that certain angels sinned by having intercourse with women--e.g., Enoch vii. 1, 2; cv. 13 (Lawrence's translation). Not improbably these false teachers made use of this book, and possibly of these passages, in their corrupt teaching. Hence St. Peter uses it as an argumentum ad hominem against them, and St. Jude, recognising the allusion, adopts it and makes it more plain; or both writers, knowing the Book of Enoch well, and calculating on their readers knowing it also, used it to illustrate their arguments and exhortations, just as St. Paul uses the Jewish belief of the rock following the Israelites. (See Note on <a href="/1_corinthians/10-4.htm" title="And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.">1Corinthians 10:4</a>.)Cast them down to hell.--The Greek word occurs nowhere else, but its meaning is plain--to cast down to Tartarus; and though "Tartarus" occurs neither in the Old nor in the New Testament, it probably is the same as Gehenna. (See Note on <a href="/matthew/5-22.htm" title="But I say to you, That whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whoever shall say, You fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.">Matthew 5:22</a>.) . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/2_peter/2.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 4. - For if God spared not the angels that sinned; rather, angels when they sinned ; there is no article. St. Peter is giving proofs of his assertion that the punishment of the ungodly lingereth not. The first is the punishment of angels that sinned. He does not specify the sin, whether rebellion, as in <a href="/revelation/12-7.htm">Revelation 12:7</a>; or uncleanness, as apparently in <a href="/jude/1-6.htm">Jude 1:6, 7</a>, and <a href="/genesis/6-4.htm">Genesis 6:4</a>. Formally, there is an anacoluthon here, but in thought we have the apodosis in verse 9. But cast them down to hell. The Greek word, which is found nowhere else in the Greek Scriptures, is ταρταρώσας, "having cast into Tartarus." This use of a word belonging to heathen mythology is very remarkable, and without parallel in the New Testament. (The word τάρταρος occurs in the Septuagint, <a href="/job/40-15.htm">Job 40:15</a>. Compare also the Septuagint rendering of the name of Job's daughter Keren-Happuch, Ἀμαλθαίας κέρας, the horn of Amalthaea; and the word σειρῆνες in <a href="/isaiah/43-20.htm">Isaiah 43:20</a>.) Apparently, St. Peter regards Tartarus not as equivalent to Gehenna, for the sinful angels are "reserved unto judgment," but as a place of preliminary detention. Josephus, quoted by Professor Lumby in the 'Speaker's Commentary,' speaks of the oldest heathen gods as fettered in Tartarus, ἐν Ταρτάρῳ δεδεμένους ('Contra Apion,' 2:33). And delivered them into chains of darkness. The Revised Version "pits" represents the reading of the four oldest manuscripts; but the variations in two of them (the Sinaitic and Alexandrine have σειροῖς ζόφοις), and the fact that σειρός seems properly to mean a pit for the storage of corn, throw some doubt upon this reading. The other reading σειραῖς, cords, may possibly have arisen from the parallel passage in <a href="/jude/1-6.htm">Jude 1:6</a>, though the Greek word for "chains" is different there. The chains consist in darkness; the pits are in darkness, Παρέδωκε, delivered, is often used, as Huther remarks, with the implied idea of punishment. It is simpler to connect the chains or pits of darkness with this verb than (as Fronmuller and others) with ταρταρώσας, "having cast them in bonds of darkness into Tartarus" (comp. Wisd. 17:2, 16, 17). To be reserved unto judgment; literally, being reserved; but the readings here are very confused. St. Jude says (verse 6) that the sinful angels are reserved "unto the judgment of the great day." Bengel says, "Possunt autem in terra quoque versari mancipia Tartari (<a href="/luke/8-31.htm">Luke 8:31</a>; <a href="/ephesians/2-2.htm">Ephesians 2:2</a>; etc.) sic ut bello captus etiam extra locum captivitatis potest ambulare." But in the case of a mystery of which so little has been revealed, we are scarcely justified in assuming the identity of the angels cast into Tartarus with the evil spirits who tempt and harass us on earth. <a href="/commentaries/2_peter/2-4.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div>For γὰρ (gar) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_1063.htm">Strong's 1063: </a> For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason. if Εἰ (Ei) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_1487.htm">Strong's 1487: </a> If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc. God Θεὸς (Theos) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2316.htm">Strong's 2316: </a> A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very. {did} not οὐκ (ouk) Adverb <a href="/greek/strongs_3756.htm">Strong's 3756: </a> No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not. spare ἐφείσατο (epheisato) Verb - Aorist Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_5339.htm">Strong's 5339: </a> To spare, abstain, forbear. Of uncertain affinity; to be chary of, i.e. to abstain or to treat leniently. [the] angels ἀγγέλων (angelōn) Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_32.htm">Strong's 32: </a> From aggello; a messenger; especially an 'angel'; by implication, a pastor. when they sinned, ἁμαρτησάντων (hamartēsantōn) Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Genitive Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_264.htm">Strong's 264: </a> Perhaps from a and the base of meros; properly, to miss the mark, i.e. to err, especially to sin. but ἀλλὰ (alla) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_235.htm">Strong's 235: </a> But, except, however. Neuter plural of allos; properly, other things, i.e. contrariwise. cast [them] into hell, ταρταρώσας (tartarōsas) Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_5020.htm">Strong's 5020: </a> To thrust down to Tartarus or Gehenna. From Tartaros; to incarcerate in eternal torment. delivering [them] παρέδωκεν (paredōken) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3860.htm">Strong's 3860: </a> From para and didomi; to surrender, i.e yield up, intrust, transmit. in chains σειραῖς (seirais) Noun - Dative Feminine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_4577.htm">Strong's 4577: </a> A chain. Probably from suro through its congener eiro; a chain. to be held τηρουμένους (tēroumenous) Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Accusative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_5083.htm">Strong's 5083: </a> From teros; to guard, i.e. To note; by implication, to detain; by extension, to withhold; by extension, to withhold. in gloomy darkness ζόφου (zophou) Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2217.htm">Strong's 2217: </a> Darkness, murkiness, gloom. Akin to the base of nephos; gloom. until [their] εἰς (eis) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_1519.htm">Strong's 1519: </a> A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases. judgment; κρίσιν (krisin) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2920.htm">Strong's 2920: </a> Decision; by extension, a tribunal; by implication, justice. <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/2_peter/2-4.htm">2 Peter 2:4 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/2_peter/2-4.htm">2 Peter 2:4 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/2_peter/2-4.htm">2 Peter 2:4 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/2_peter/2-4.htm">2 Peter 2:4 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/2_peter/2-4.htm">2 Peter 2:4 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/2_peter/2-4.htm">2 Peter 2:4 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/2_peter/2-4.htm">2 Peter 2:4 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/2_peter/2-4.htm">2 Peter 2:4 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/2_peter/2-4.htm">2 Peter 2:4 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/2_peter/2-4.htm">2 Peter 2:4 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-4.htm">NT Letters: 2 Peter 2:4 For if God didn't spare angels when (2 Pet. 2P iiP ii Pet) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/2_peter/2-3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Peter 2:3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Peter 2:3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/2_peter/2-5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Peter 2:5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Peter 2:5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>