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2 Peter 2 - New American Standard Bible (NASB)

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The Appearance of False Prophets

2 But (A)false prophets also appeared among the people, just as there will also be (B)false teachers (C)among you, who will (D)secretly introduce (E)destructive heresies, even (F)denying the (G)Master who (H)bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. 2 Many will follow their (I)indecent behavior, and because of them (J)the way of the truth will be (K)maligned; 3 and in their (L)greed they will (M)exploit you with (N)false words; (O)their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

4 For (P)if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into [a]hell and (Q)committed them to [b]pits of darkness, held for judgment; 5 and did not spare (R)the ancient world, but protected (S)Noah, a [c]preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a (T)flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 and if He (U)condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an (V)example [d]of what is coming for the (W)ungodly; 7 and if He (X)rescued righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the (Y)perverted conduct of [e](Z)unscrupulous people 8 (for by what he saw and heard that (AA)righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds), 9 (AB)then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from [f]a trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the (AC)day of judgment, 10 and especially those who [g](AD)indulge the flesh in its corrupt passion, and (AE)despise [h]authority.

[i]Reckless, (AF)self-centered, they (AG)speak abusively of angelic [j]majesties without trembling, 11 (AH)whereas angels who are greater in might and power do not bring a demeaning judgment against them before the Lord. 12 But (AI)these, like unreasoning animals, (AJ)born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, using abusive speech where they have no knowledge, will in [k]the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed, 13 suffering wrong as (AK)the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to (AL)revel in the (AM)daytime. They are stains and blemishes, (AN)reveling in their [l]deceptions as they (AO)feast with you, 14 having eyes full of adultery [m]that never cease from sin, (AP)enticing (AQ)unstable souls, having hearts trained in (AR)greed, (AS)accursed children; 15 abandoning (AT)the right way, they have gone astray, having followed (AU)the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved (AV)the [n]reward of unrighteousness; 16 but he received a rebuke for his own offense, (AW)for a mute donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the insanity of the prophet.

17 These are (AX)springs without water and mists driven by a storm, (AY)for whom the [o]black darkness has been reserved. 18 For, while speaking out (AZ)arrogant words of no (BA)value they (BB)entice by fleshly desires, by (BC)indecent behavior, those who barely (BD)escape from the ones who live in error, 19 promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for (BE)by what anyone is overcome, by this he is enslaved. 20 For if, after they have (BF)escaped the defilements of the world by (BG)the knowledge of the (BH)Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again (BI)entangled in them and are overcome, (BJ)the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 (BK)For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from (BL)the holy commandment (BM)handed on to them. 22 [p]It has happened to them according to the true proverb, “(BN)A dog returns to its own vomit,” and, “A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire.”

Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:4 Gr Tartarus, a name used as a reference to the netherworld (hell)
  2. 2 Peter 2:4 One early ms chains of darkness
  3. 2 Peter 2:5 Or herald
  4. 2 Peter 2:6 One early ms to those who were going to live ungodly lives
  5. 2 Peter 2:7 Or disgraceful
  6. 2 Peter 2:9 Or temptation; one early ms trials (temptations)
  7. 2 Peter 2:10 Lit go after
  8. 2 Peter 2:10 Lit lordship
  9. 2 Peter 2:10 Or Audacious
  10. 2 Peter 2:10 Lit glories
  11. 2 Peter 2:12 Lit their destruction also
  12. 2 Peter 2:13 One early ms love feasts
  13. 2 Peter 2:14 Lit and unceasing from sin
  14. 2 Peter 2:15 Or wages
  15. 2 Peter 2:17 Lit blackness of darkness
  16. 2 Peter 2:22 Lit The thing of the true proverb has happened to them

Cross references

  1. 2 Peter 2:1 : Deut 13:1ff; Jer 6:13
  2. 2 Peter 2:1 : 2 Cor 11:13
  3. 2 Peter 2:1 : Matt 7:15; 1 Tim 4:1
  4. 2 Peter 2:1 : Gal 2:4; Jude 4
  5. 2 Peter 2:1 : 1 Cor 11:19; Gal 5:20
  6. 2 Peter 2:1 : Jude 4
  7. 2 Peter 2:1 : Rev 6:10
  8. 2 Peter 2:1 : 1 Cor 6:20
  9. 2 Peter 2:2 : Gen 19:5ff; 2 Pet 2:7, 18; Jude 4
  10. 2 Peter 2:2 : Acts 16:17; 22:4; 24:14
  11. 2 Peter 2:2 : Rom 2:24
  12. 2 Peter 2:3 : 1 Tim 6:5; 2 Pet 2:14; Jude 16
  13. 2 Peter 2:3 : 2 Cor 2:17; 1 Thess 2:5
  14. 2 Peter 2:3 : Rom 16:18; 2 Pet 1:16
  15. 2 Peter 2:3 : Deut 32:35
  16. 2 Peter 2:4 : Jude 6
  17. 2 Peter 2:4 : Rev 20:1f
  18. 2 Peter 2:5 : Ezek 26:20; 2 Pet 3:6
  19. 2 Peter 2:5 : Gen 6:8, 9; 1 Pet 3:20
  20. 2 Peter 2:5 : 2 Pet 3:6
  21. 2 Peter 2:6 : Gen 19:24; Jude 7
  22. 2 Peter 2:6 : Is 1:9; Matt 10:15; 11:23; Rom 9:29; Jude 7
  23. 2 Peter 2:6 : Jude 15
  24. 2 Peter 2:7 : Gen 19:16, 29
  25. 2 Peter 2:7 : Gen 19:5ff; 2 Pet 2:2, 18; Jude 4
  26. 2 Peter 2:7 : 2 Pet 3:17
  27. 2 Peter 2:8 : Heb 11:4
  28. 2 Peter 2:9 : 1 Cor 10:13; Rev 3:10
  29. 2 Peter 2:9 : Matt 10:15; Jude 6
  30. 2 Peter 2:10 : 2 Pet 3:3; Jude 16, 18
  31. 2 Peter 2:10 : Ex 22:28; Jude 8
  32. 2 Peter 2:10 : Titus 1:7
  33. 2 Peter 2:10 : Ex 22:28; Jude 8
  34. 2 Peter 2:11 : Jude 9
  35. 2 Peter 2:12 : Jude 10
  36. 2 Peter 2:12 : Jer 12:3; Col 2:22
  37. 2 Peter 2:13 : 2 Pet 2:15
  38. 2 Peter 2:13 : Rom 13:13
  39. 2 Peter 2:13 : 1 Thess 5:7
  40. 2 Peter 2:13 : Rom 13:13
  41. 2 Peter 2:13 : 1 Cor 11:21; Jude 12
  42. 2 Peter 2:14 : 2 Pet 2:18
  43. 2 Peter 2:14 : James 1:8; 2 Pet 3:16
  44. 2 Peter 2:14 : 2 Pet 2:3
  45. 2 Peter 2:14 : Eph 2:3
  46. 2 Peter 2:15 : Acts 13:10
  47. 2 Peter 2:15 : Num 22:5, 7; Deut 23:4; Neh 13:2; Jude 11; Rev 2:14
  48. 2 Peter 2:15 : 2 Pet 2:13
  49. 2 Peter 2:16 : Num 22:21, 23, 28, 30ff
  50. 2 Peter 2:17 : Jude 12
  51. 2 Peter 2:17 : Jude 13
  52. 2 Peter 2:18 : Jude 16
  53. 2 Peter 2:18 : Eph 4:17
  54. 2 Peter 2:18 : 2 Pet 2:14
  55. 2 Peter 2:18 : 2 Pet 2:2
  56. 2 Peter 2:18 : 2 Pet 1:4; 2:20
  57. 2 Peter 2:19 : John 8:34; Rom 6:16
  58. 2 Peter 2:20 : 2 Pet 2:18
  59. 2 Peter 2:20 : 2 Pet 1:2
  60. 2 Peter 2:20 : 2 Pet 1:11; 3:18
  61. 2 Peter 2:20 : 2 Tim 2:4
  62. 2 Peter 2:20 : Matt 12:45; Luke 11:26
  63. 2 Peter 2:21 : Ezek 18:24; Heb 6:4ff; 10:26f; James 4:17
  64. 2 Peter 2:21 : Gal 6:2; 1 Tim 6:14; 2 Pet 3:2
  65. 2 Peter 2:21 : Jude 3
  66. 2 Peter 2:22 : Prov 26:11

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