2 Peter 2:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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;

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  • Eph 2:3 : 3 Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 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 2:18 : 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;
  • 2 Pet 3:16 : 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.
  • 1 John 2:16 : 16 Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.
  • Jas 1:8 : 8 For there is a division in his mind, and he is uncertain in all his ways.
  • Eph 4:14 : 14 So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;
  • Jude 1:11 : 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.
  • Rev 12:9 : 9 And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him.
  • 2 Sam 11:2-4 : 2 Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. 3 And David sent to get knowledge who the woman was. And one said, Is this not Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite? 4 And David sent and took her; and she came to him, and he took her to his bed: (for she had been made clean;) then she went back to her house.
  • Job 31:7 : 7 If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;
  • Job 31:9 : 9 If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;
  • Prov 6:25 : 25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.
  • Isa 1:16 : 16 Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;
  • Isa 34:5 : 5 For my sword in heaven is full of wrath: see, it is coming down on Edom, in punishment on the people of my curse.
  • Isa 65:20 : 20 No longer will there be there a child whose days are cut short, or an old man whose days have not come to their full measure: for the young man at his death will be a hundred years old, and he whose life is shorter than a hundred years will seem as one cursed.
  • Jer 13:23 : 23 Is it possible for the skin of the Ethiopian to be changed, or the markings on the leopard? Then it might be possible for you to do good, who have been trained to do evil.
  • Matt 5:28 : 28 But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.
  • Matt 12:34 : 34 You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.
  • Matt 25:41 : 41 Then will he say to those on the left, Go from me, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire which is ready for the Evil One and his angels:
  • Mark 13:22 : 22 Because there will be false Christs and false prophets, and they will give signs and wonders in the hope of turning even the saints from the true way.
  • John 5:44 : 44 How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?
  • Rom 16:18 : 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.
  • 1 Cor 11:19 : 19 For divisions are necessary among you, in order that those who have God's approval may be clearly seen among you.
  • Col 2:18 : 18 Let no man take your reward from you by consciously making little of himself and giving worship to angels; having his thoughts fixed on the things which he has seen, being foolishly lifted up in his natural mind,

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    12But 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;

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    19Saying 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.

    20For 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.

  • Rom 1:29-31
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    29Being 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;

    30Hated by God, full of pride, without respect, full of loud talk, given to evil inventions, not honouring father or mother,

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  • Eph 4:18-19
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    18Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;

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    10But 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.

    11A 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.

    12These 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,

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

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  • Rom 3:14-15
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    14Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

    15Their feet are quick in running after blood;

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    11By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.

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

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    16These 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.

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

    15Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

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    5Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;

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    2Through the false ways of men whose words are untrue, whose hearts are burned as with a heated iron;

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    7Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.

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  • Rom 16:18
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    12And they are judged because they have been false to their first faith;

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    14But I have some things against you, because you have with you those who keep the teaching of Balaam, by whose suggestion Balak made the children of Israel go out of the right way, taking food which was offered to false gods, and going after the desires of the flesh.

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    22See, I will put her into a bed, and those who make themselves unclean with her, into great trouble, if they go on with her works.

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    19Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,

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

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    16For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

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    4And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:

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    18A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;

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    10But 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:

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    5They have become false, they are not his children, the mark of sin is on them; they are an evil and hard-hearted generation.

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    13Evil and false men will become worse and worse, using deceit and themselves overcome by deceit.

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    2For the purposes of their hearts are destruction, and their lips are talking of trouble.