2 Peter 2:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption;

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  • Jude 1:10 : 10 But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.
  • Jer 12:3 : 3 But You, O LORD, know me; You have seen me and tested my heart toward You. 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 my indignation upon you, I will blow against you in the fire of my wrath, and deliver you into the hands of brutish men, skillful to destroy.
  • John 8:21 : 21 Then Jesus said again to them, I go my way, and you shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: where I go, you cannot come.
  • Gal 6:8 : 8 For he who sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he who sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
  • 2 Pet 1:4 : 4 By which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that by these you 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 slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.
  • Ps 49:10 : 10 For he sees that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
  • Ps 92:6 : 6 A senseless man does not know, nor does a fool understand this.
  • Ps 94:8 : 8 Understand, you senseless among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is banished in his wickedness, but the righteous has hope in his death.
  • Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are senseless children, and they have no 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 do not know the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the wooden idol is a doctrine of vanities.
  • Jer 10:21 : 21 For the pastors have 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 whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.

    11Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

    12These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots;

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

  • 2 Pet 2:13-15
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    13And will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, reveling in their own deceptions while they banquet with you;

    14Having eyes full of adultery and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices and are accursed children.

    15They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

  • 2 Pet 2:10-11
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    10And especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed, and not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

    11Whereas angels, who are greater in power and might, do not bring a slanderous accusation against them before the Lord.

  • Jude 1:7-8
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    7As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

    8Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries.

  • 2 Pet 2:17-20
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    17These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, to whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.

    18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through wantonness, those who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

    19While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.

    20For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.

  • 2 Pet 2:2-4
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    2And many will follow their pernicious ways; by whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.

    3And through covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; their judgment is long overdue, and their destruction does not slumber.

    4For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4Wherein they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

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

    23And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.

    24Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves,

  • 2 Pet 3:16
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    16As also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to understand, which those who are unlearned and unstable twist, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

  • Rom 1:31-32
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    31Undiscerning, untrustworthy, without natural affection, unmerciful:

    32Who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

  • Jas 3:7
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    7For every kind of beast, and of bird, and of serpent, and of things in the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10For while they are entangled like thorns and while they are drunken like drunkards, they shall be devoured as fully dry stubble.

  • 2 Pet 2:22
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    22But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: "The dog returns to his own vomit," 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 idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness.

    17And their message will spread like cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort,

  • Jude 1:19
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    19These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, having not the Spirit.

  • Jude 1:15-16
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    15to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.'

    16These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage.

  • 2 Tim 3:9
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    9But they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifested to all, 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 debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

    29Being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers,

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

  • Titus 1:11
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    11Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.

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

  • 2 Tim 2:14
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    14Remind them of these things, charging them before the Lord not to argue about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers.

  • Jude 1:4
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    4For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lewdness 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 forever without anyone regarding it.

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

  • 2 Tim 3:6
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    6For of this sort are those who creep into households and lead captive gullible women loaded with sins, led away by various lusts,

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

  • Titus 1:16
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    16They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.

  • Rom 1:26
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    26For this reason God gave them up to vile passions: for even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature.

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

  • Titus 3:3
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    3For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various 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 are like serpents, having heads, and with them they do harm.