2 Peter 2:12

Authorized King James Version (1611)

But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

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  • Jude 1:10 : 10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
  • Jer 12:3 : 3 But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine 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 against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, [and] skilful to destroy.
  • John 8:21 : 21 ¶ Then said Jesus again unto them, ‹I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.›
  • Gal 6:8 : 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
  • 2 Pet 1:4 : 4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
  • Ps 49:10 : 10 For he seeth [that] wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person 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 Understand, ye brutish among the people: and [ye] fools, when will ye be wise?
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 ¶ The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
  • Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people [is] foolish, they have not known me; they [are] sottish children, and they have none understanding: they [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
  • Jer 5:4 : 4 Therefore I said, Surely these [are] poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, [nor] the judgment of their God.
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.
  • Jer 10:21 : 21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

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  • Jude 1:10-13
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    10But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

    11Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

    12These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [they are] without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

    13Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

  • 2 Pet 2:13-15
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    79%

    13And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, [as] they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots [they are] and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

    14Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

    15Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

  • 2 Pet 2:10-11
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    10¶ But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous [are they], selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

    11Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.

  • Jude 1:7-8
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    7Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

    8¶ Likewise also these [filthy] dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

  • 2 Pet 2:17-20
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    17These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

    18For when they speak great swelling [words] of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

    19While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

    20For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

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

    3¶ And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

    4For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast [them] down to hell, and delivered [them] into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4¶ Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] to 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 uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

    24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

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

  • Rom 1:31-32
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    72%

    31Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

    32Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

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

  • Nah 1:10
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    10For while [they be] folden together [as] thorns, and while they are drunken [as] drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

  • 2 Pet 2:22
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    22But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog [is] turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

  • 2 Tim 2:16-17
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    16But shun profane [and] vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

    17And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;

  • Jude 1:19
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    19These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.

  • Jude 1:15-16
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    15¶ To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard [speeches] which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

    16These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling [words], having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

  • 2 Tim 3:9
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    9But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all [men], as theirs also was.

  • Rom 1:28-29
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    28And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

    29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

  • 2 Tim 3:3
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    3Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

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

  • Eph 4:19
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    19Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

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

  • Jude 1:4
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    4For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Job 4:20
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    20They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding [it].

  • 2 Thess 1:8
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    8In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

  • 2 Tim 3:6
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    6For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with 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 in 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 affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

  • Rom 2:2
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    2But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.

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

  • Rev 9:19
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    19For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails [were] like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.