2 Peter 2:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

That

Romans 8:1

2 Corinthians 10:3

Hebrews 13:4

In the

Jude 1:4

Despise

Selfwilled

Genesis 49:6

Titus 1:7

To speak

General references

Job 34:18

1 Peter 2:13

Bible References

That

There is therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh:

Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but lewd persons and adulterers God will judge.

In the

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:

Know 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,

Who being past feeling have given themselves over to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

For this ye know, that no lewd, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; lewdness, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

For God hath not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.

For certain men have 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.

Despise

And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: who said, We will not come up:

And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken to the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or to the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt remove the evil from Israel.

And they shall say to 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.

But 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.

And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite: 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.

So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not to 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 thy own house, David. So Israel departed to their tents.

Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? a land of darkness? why say my people, We are lords; we will come no more to thee?

But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.

Let every soul be subject to the higher powers. For there is no power but from God: the powers that are, are ordained by God.

Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

Selfwilled

O my soul, come not thou into their secret; to their assembly, my honor, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall.

For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

To speak

Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.

Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.

Then said Paul, I knew not, brethren, that he is the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.

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

General references

Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?

Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme;