2 Peter 2:12

American Standard Version (1901)

But these, as creatures without reason, born mere animals to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters whereof they are ignorant, shall in their destroying surely be destroyed,

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  • Jude 1:10 : 10 But these rail at whatsoever things they know not: and what they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, in these things are they destroyed.
  • Jer 12:3 : 3 But thou, O Jehovah, knowest me; thou seest me, and triest my heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
  • Ezek 21:31 : 31 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee; I will blow upon thee with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, skilful to destroy.
  • John 8:21 : 21 He said therefore again unto them, I go away, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sin: whither I go, ye cannot come.
  • Gal 6:8 : 8 For he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life.
  • 2 Pet 1:4 : 4 whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in that world by lust.
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage.
  • Ps 49:10 : 10 For he shall see it. Wise men die; The fool and the brutish alike perish, And leave their wealth to others.
  • Ps 92:6 : 6 A brutish man knoweth not; Neither doth a fool understand this:
  • Ps 94:8 : 8 Consider, ye brutish among the people; And ye fools, when will ye be wise?
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing; But the righteous hath a refuge in his death.
  • Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
  • Jer 5:4 : 4 Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they know not the way of Jehovah, nor the law of their God:
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
  • Jer 10:21 : 21 For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Jehovah: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.

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  • Jude 1:10-13
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    10But these rail at whatsoever things they know not: and what they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, in these things are they destroyed.

    11Woe unto them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.

    12These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

    13Wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved for ever.

  • 2 Pet 2:13-15
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    79%

    13suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; [men] that count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceivings while they feast with you;

    14having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of cursing;

    15forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the [son] of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing;

  • 2 Pet 2:10-11
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    10but chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise dominion. Daring, self-willed, they tremble not to rail at dignities:

    11whereas angels, though greater in might and power, bring not a railing judgment against them before the Lord.

  • Jude 1:7-8
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    7Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

    8Yet in like manner these also in their dreamings defile the flesh, and set at nought dominion, and rail at dignities.

  • 2 Pet 2:17-20
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    17These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved.

    18For, uttering great swelling [words] of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;

    19promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage.

    20For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.

  • 2 Pet 2:2-4
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    2And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of.

    3And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.

    4For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you] :

  • Rom 1:22-24
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    22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

    23and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.

    24Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves:

  • 2 Pet 3:16
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    16as also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as [they do] also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

  • Rom 1:31-32
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    31without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful:

    32who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.

  • Jas 3:7
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    7For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

  • 2 Pet 2:22
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    22It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.

  • 2 Tim 2:16-17
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    16But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

    17and their word will eat as doth a gangrene: or whom is Hymenaeus an Philetus;

  • Jude 1:19
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    19These are they who make separations, sensual, having not the Spirit.

  • Jude 1:15-16
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    15to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have ungodly wrought, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

    16These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaketh great swelling [words] ), showing respect of persons for the sake of advantage.

  • 2 Tim 3:9
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    9But they shall proceed no further. For their folly shall be evident unto all men, as theirs also came to be.

  • Rom 1:28-29
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    28And even as they refused to have God in [their] knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

    29being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

  • 2 Tim 3:3
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    3without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,

  • Titus 1:11
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    11whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

  • Eph 4:19
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    19who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

  • 2 Tim 2:14
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    14Of these things put them in remembrance, charging [them] in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.

  • Jude 1:4
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    4For there are certain men crept in privily, [even] they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

  • Job 4:20
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    20Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it.

  • 2 Thess 1:8
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    8rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus:

  • 2 Tim 3:6
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    6For of these are they that creep into houses, and take captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts,

  • Rom 3:16
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    16Destruction and misery are in their ways;

  • Titus 1:16
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    16They profess that they know God; but by their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

  • Rom 1:26
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    26For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature:

  • Rom 2:2
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    2And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against them that practise such things.

  • Titus 3:3
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    3For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

  • Rev 9:19
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    19For the power of the horses is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails are like unto serpents, and have heads; and with them they hurt.