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:

where, messengers, though, greater in might and power, are not bringing against them before the Lorda defamatory accusation, -

But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,

First of all, you must understand this, that in the last days mockers will come with their mockeries, going where their passions lead

And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

But based on His promise, we wait for the new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness will dwell.

as it were in all his epistles, where he takes notice of these things: in which there are some passages that are difficult to understand, which the illiterate, and unstable wrest, as they do the rest of the scriptures, to their own ruin.