Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. Treasury of Scripture these. Jeremiah 38:25-28 But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you, and say to you... defile. 1 Corinthians 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are. 1 Timothy 1:10 For fornicators, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for enslavers, for liars, for perjured persons... See on 2 Peter 2:10-12 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed... despise. Genesis 3:5 For God does know that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Numbers 16:3,12,13 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take too much on you... , 1 Samuel 10:27 But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought no presents. But he held his peace. Psalm 2:1-6 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing... Psalm 12:3-4 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things... Luke 19:14 But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us. Acts 7:27,39 But he that did his neighbor wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us... 1 Thessalonians 4:8 He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who has also given to us his holy Spirit. Hebrews 13:17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account... speak. Jude 1:9,10 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses... Exodus 22:28 You shall not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of your people. Proverbs 30:11,17 There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother... Ecclesiastes 10:20 Curse not the king, no not in your thought; and curse not the rich in your bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice... Acts 23:5 Then said Paul, I knew not, brothers, that he was the high priest: for it is written... 1 Peter 2:17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
Context God's Judgment on the Ungodly
3Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write to you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered to the saints. 4For there are certain men 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. 5I will therefore put you in remembrance, though you once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. 6And 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. 7Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. 8Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. 9Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke you. 10But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. 11Woe to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. 12These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit wither, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 13Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. 14And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his saints, 15To execute judgment on all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. 16These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaks great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Yet in like manner these also in their dreamings defile the flesh, and set at nought dominion, and rail at dignities.
Douay-Rheims Bible
In like manner these men also defile the flesh, and despise dominion, and blaspheme majesty.
Darby Bible Translation
Yet in like manner these dreamers also defile the flesh, and despise lordship, and speak railingly against dignities.
King James Bible
Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
Young's Literal Translation
In like manner, nevertheless, those dreaming also the flesh indeed do defile, and lordship they put away, and dignities they speak evil of,
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