2 Peter 2:12

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These people, however, are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed. They speak abusively about things they do not understand, and in their destruction, they too will be destroyed.

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  • Jude 1:10 : 10 These people speak abusively about what they do not understand, and what they do understand by instinct—like unreasoning animals—these are the very things that destroy them.
  • Jer 12:3 : 3 But you, LORD, know me; you see me and test my heart toward you. Drag them off like sheep for slaughter and set them apart for the day of killing.
  • Ezek 21:31 : 31 This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Remove the turban and take off the crown. Things will not remain as they are. Exalt the lowly and bring down the exalted.
  • John 8:21 : 21 Then he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come."
  • Gal 6:8 : 8 The one who sows to their flesh will reap decay from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
  • 2 Pet 1:4 : 4 Through these, He has given us His very great and precious promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 They promise freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption, for a person is a slave to whatever has mastered them.
  • Ps 49:10 : 10 that he should live on forever and not see the pit of decay.
  • Ps 92:6 : 6 How great are Your works, O LORD! How profound are Your thoughts!
  • Ps 94:8 : 8 Understand this, you brutish people! Fools, when will you understand?
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked are brought down by their own evil, but the righteous take refuge when they die.
  • Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people are foolish; they do not know me. They are senseless children and have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they do not know how to do good.
  • Jer 5:4 : 4 Then I thought, 'These are only the poor; they are foolish because they do not know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.'
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 They are all senseless and foolish; their instruction comes from worthless idols.
  • Jer 10:21 : 21 The shepherds are senseless and do not seek the Lord; therefore they do not prosper, and all their flock is scattered.

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  • Jude 1:10-13
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    10These people speak abusively about what they do not understand, and what they do understand by instinct—like unreasoning animals—these are the very things that destroy them.

    11Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, rushed headlong for profit into Balaam’s error, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.

    12These are hidden reefs in your love feasts, feasting with you fearlessly, shepherding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted.

    13They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackest darkness has been reserved forever.

  • 2 Pet 2:13-15
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    13They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. They consider it a pleasure to indulge in carousing during the day. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you.

    14They have eyes full of adultery, never ceasing from sin. They entice unstable souls and have hearts trained in greed. They are accursed children.

    15They have abandoned the straight way and gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness.

  • 2 Pet 2:10-11
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    10especially those who follow the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. They are bold and arrogant, and they are unafraid to slander celestial beings.

    11Yet even angels, who are greater in strength and power, do not bring a slanderous judgment against such beings before the Lord.

  • Jude 1:7-8
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    7In the same way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desires, serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

    8In the same way, these people also, relying on their dreams, defile their flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme glorious beings.

  • 2 Pet 2:17-20
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    17These people are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness has been reserved for them forever.

    18For they utter arrogant, empty words and entice those who are barely escaping from others living in error, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh and by debauchery.

    19They promise freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption, for a person is a slave to whatever has mastered them.

    20For if, after escaping the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

  • 2 Pet 2:2-4
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    2Many will follow their destructive ways, and because of them, the way of truth will be blasphemed.

    3In their greed, they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

    4For if God did not spare the angels who sinned but cast them into hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment,

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you.

  • Rom 1:22-24
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    22Claiming to be wise, they became fools.

    23And they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, animals, and creeping things.

    24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.

  • 2 Pet 3:16
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    16As he does in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. In them, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

  • Rom 1:31-32
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    31they are senseless, faithless, unloving, unforgiving, and unmerciful.

    32Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things but also approve of those who practice them.

  • Jas 3:7
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    7Every kind of animal, bird, reptile, and sea creature is tamed and has been tamed by mankind,

  • Nah 1:10
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    10Though they are entangled in thorns and drunk from their wine, they will be consumed like dry stubble.

  • 2 Pet 2:22
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    22Of them the true proverb has come true: "A dog returns to its own vomit," and, "A sow that is washed returns to wallowing in the mud."

  • 2 Tim 2:16-17
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    16Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly.

    17Their teaching will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

  • Jude 1:19
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    19These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly, devoid of the Spirit.

  • Jude 1:15-16
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    15to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds they have committed, and of all the harsh words that ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.

    16These people are grumblers and complainers, living according to their own desires. Their mouths speak arrogant words, flattering others for their own advantage.

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    9But they will not get very far because their folly will be clear to everyone, just as the folly of Jannes and Jambres became evident.

  • Rom 1:28-29
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    28And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

    29They have become filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, and malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

  • 2 Tim 3:3
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    3They will be unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, and hostile to what is good.

  • Titus 1:11
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    11They must be silenced because they are upsetting whole households by teaching things they should not for the sake of dishonest gain.

  • Eph 4:19
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    19They have become callous and have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

  • 2 Tim 2:14
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    14Keep reminding them of these things, and solemnly warn them before God not to quarrel about words. Such arguments are useless and lead to the ruin of those who listen.

  • Jude 1:4
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    4For certain people have secretly slipped in among you—those who were written about long ago as being destined for this condemnation. They are ungodly, turning the grace of our God into a license for immorality and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

  • Job 4:20
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    20From morning to evening they are broken to pieces; without anyone noticing, they perish forever.

  • 2 Thess 1:8
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    8In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

  • 2 Tim 3:6
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    6They are the kind who creep into homes and capture weak-willed women who are burdened with sins and led astray by various desires.

  • Rom 3:16
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    16Ruin and misery mark their paths.

  • Titus 1:16
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    16They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

  • Rom 1:26
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    26For this reason, God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature.

  • Rom 2:2
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    2We know that God's judgment is based on truth against those who practice such things.

  • Titus 3:3
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    3For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.

  • Rev 9:19
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    19For the power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; their tails were like snakes with heads, and they used them to harm.