2 Peter 2:13

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For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;

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  • Rom 13:13 : 13 With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy.
  • Rom 2:8-9 : 8 But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath, 9 Trouble and sorrow on all whose works are evil, to the Jew first and then to the Greek;
  • 1 Pet 4:4 : 4 And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:
  • 2 Pet 2:15 : 15 Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;
  • Jude 1:12-16 : 12 These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots, 13 Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever. 14 The prophet Enoch, who was the seventh after Adam, said of these men, The Lord came with tens of thousands of his saints, 15 To be the judge of all, and to give a decision against all those whose lives are unpleasing to him, because of the evil acts which they have done, and because of all the hard things which sinners without fear of God have said against him. 16 These are the men who make trouble, ever desiring change, going after evil pleasures, using high-sounding words, respecting men's position in the hope of reward.
  • Rev 18:6 : 6 Give to her as she gave, even an increased reward for her works; in the cup which was mixed by her, let there be mixed as much again for herself.
  • 1 Cor 11:20-22 : 20 But now, when you come together, it is not possible to take the holy meal of the Lord: 21 For when you take your food, everyone takes his meal before the other; and one has not enough food, and another is the worse for drink. 22 What? have you not houses to take your meals in? or have you no respect for the church of God, putting the poor to shame? What am I to say to you? am I to give you praise? certainly not.
  • Eph 5:27 : 27 And might take it for himself, a church full of glory, not having one mark or fold or any such thing; but that it might be holy and complete.
  • Phil 3:19 : 19 Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.
  • 1 Thess 5:7-8 : 7 For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night; 8 But let us, who are of the day, be serious, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and on our heads, the hope of salvation.
  • 2 Tim 4:14 : 14 Alexander the copper-worker did me much wrong: the Lord will give him the reward of his works:
  • Heb 2:2-3 : 2 Because if the word which came through the angels was fixed, and in the past every evil act against God's orders was given its full punishment; 3 What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came;
  • Isa 3:11 : 11 Unhappy is the sinner! for the reward of his evil doings will come on him.
  • Song 4:7 : 7 You are all fair, my love; there is no mark on you.

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    14 Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;

    15 Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;

  • Jude 1:10-13
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    10 But these men say evil about such things as they have no knowledge of; and the things of which they have natural knowledge, like beasts without reason, are the cause of their destruction.

    11 A curse on them! They have gone in the way of Cain, running uncontrolled into the error of Balaam for reward, and have come to destruction by saying evil against the Lord, like Korah.

    12 These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,

    13 Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever.

  • 2 Pet 2:12
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    12 But these men, like beasts without reason, whose natural use is to be taken and put to death, crying out against things of which they have no knowledge, will undergo that same destruction which they are designing for others;

  • 1 Pet 4:3-4
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    3 Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;

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  • 2 Pet 2:2-3
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    2 And a great number will go with them in their evil ways, through whom the true way will have a bad name.

    3 And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

  • 2 Pet 2:17-20
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    17 These are fountains without water, and mists before a driving storm; for whom the eternal night is kept in store.

    18 For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;

    19 Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.

    20 For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.

  • Jas 5:5
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    5 You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.

  • Prov 2:14
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    14 Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;

  • Jude 1:18
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    18 How they said to you, In the last days there will be men who, guided by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things.

  • Jude 1:7-8
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    7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the towns near them, having like these, given themselves up to unclean desires and gone after strange flesh, have been made an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

    8 In the same way these dreamers make the flesh unclean, having no respect for authorities, and say evil of rulers.

  • Rom 1:29
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    29 Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;

  • Eph 4:19
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    19 Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.

  • 2 Tim 3:2-4
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    2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, uplifted in pride, given to bitter words, going against the authority of their fathers, never giving praise, having no religion,

    3 Without natural love, bitter haters, saying evil of others, violent and uncontrolled, hating all good,

    4 False to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God;

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    16 These are the men who make trouble, ever desiring change, going after evil pleasures, using high-sounding words, respecting men's position in the hope of reward.

  • Rom 1:32
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    32 Who, though they have knowledge of the law of God, that the fate of those who do these things is death, not only go on doing these things themselves, but give approval to those who do them.

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    6 Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.

    7 Have no part with such men;

  • 2 Thess 2:12
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    12 So that they all may be judged, who had no faith in what is true, but took pleasure in evil.

  • Jude 1:4
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    4 For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Pet 2:10
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    10 But specially those who go after the unclean desires of the flesh, and make sport of authority. Ready to take chances, uncontrolled, they have no fear of saying evil of those in high places:

  • Prov 4:17
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    17 The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

  • 2 Tim 2:17
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    17 And their words will be like poisoned wounds in the flesh: such are Hymenaeus and Philetus;

  • Rom 13:13
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    13 With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy.

  • Titus 3:3
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    3 For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

  • Rom 2:8
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    8 But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath,

  • 2 Tim 3:13
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    13 Evil and false men will become worse and worse, using deceit and themselves overcome by deceit.

  • Rom 16:18
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    18 For such people are not servants of the Lord Christ, but of their stomachs; and by their smooth and well-said words the hearts of those who have no knowledge of evil are tricked.

  • 2 Thess 2:10
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    10 And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9 Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

  • 2 Pet 3:16
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    16 And as he said in all his letters, which had to do with these things; in which are some hard sayings, so that, like the rest of the holy Writings, they are twisted by those who are uncertain and without knowledge, to the destruction of their souls.

  • Phil 2:15
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    15 So that you may be holy and gentle, children of God without sin in a twisted and foolish generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

  • Gal 5:21
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    21 Envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting, and such things: of which I give you word clearly, even as I did in the past, that they who do such things will have no part in the kingdom of God.

  • 1 Cor 5:11
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    11 But the sense of my letter was that if a brother had the name of being one who went after the desires of the flesh, or had the desire for other people's property, or was in the way of using violent language, or being the worse for drink, or took by force what was not his, you might not keep company with such a one, or take food with him.

  • 1 Tim 1:10
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    10 For those who go after loose women, for those with unnatural desires, for those who take men prisoners, who make false statements and false oaths, and those who do any other things against the right teaching,

  • Rom 2:2
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    2 And we are conscious that God is a true judge against those who do such things.

  • Rom 2:5
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    5 But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

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    3 In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.