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2 Peter 2

2 Peter 2 — Overview

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

, He foretells them of false teachers, shewing the impiety and punishment both of them and their followers; , from which the godly shall be delivered, as Lot was out of Sodom; , and more fully describes the manners of those profane and blasphemous seducers, whereby they may be the better known, and avoided.

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