2 Peter 2:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

For 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.

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  • 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 2:20 : 20 For 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.
  • Jude 1:15-16 : 15 to 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.' 16 These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage.
  • Rev 13:5-6 : 5 And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given to him to continue for forty-two months. 6 And he opened his mouth to blaspheme against God, to blaspheme His name, and His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven.
  • Rev 13:11 : 11 And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon.
  • Jas 5:5 : 5 You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been indulgent; you have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
  • Jude 1:13 : 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
  • Ps 52:1-3 : 1 Why do you boast in mischief, O mighty man? The goodness of God endures continually. 2 Your tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 You love evil more than good; and lying rather than speaking righteousness. Selah.
  • Ps 73:8-9 : 8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly of oppression; they speak loftily. 9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.
  • Dan 4:30 : 30 The king spoke, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal residence, by the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty?
  • Dan 11:36 : 36 And the king shall do according to his will; he shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak unusual things against the God of gods, and shall prosper until the indignation is accomplished; for what has been determined shall be done.
  • Acts 2:40 : 40 And with many other words he testified and encouraged them, saying, 'Save yourselves from this perverse generation.'
  • Acts 8:9 : 9 But there was a certain man called Simon, who previously practiced sorcery in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, claiming that he was someone great,
  • Rom 13:13 : 13 Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.
  • 2 Thess 2:4 : 4 Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

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  • 2 Pet 2:19-20
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    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 Tim 3:4-6
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    4Traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

    5Having a form of godliness but denying its power. From such turn away.

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

  • 2 Pet 2:2-3
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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.

  • 2 Pet 2:12-15
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    12But 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;

    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;

  • Rom 16:18
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    18For such persons do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own appetites; and by smooth talk and flattering words deceive the hearts of the innocent.

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

  • Col 2:4
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    4And this I say, lest anyone should beguile you with enticing words.

  • 1 Tim 1:6
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    6From which some, having strayed, have turned aside to idle talk,

  • Jude 1:16
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    16These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage.

  • 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 2:16-17
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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 1:10-13
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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.

  • Jude 1:18-19
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    18How they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts.

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

  • Eph 5:6
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    6Let no one deceive you with empty words: for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.

  • 2 Pet 2:10
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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.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

  • 2 Pet 3:17
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    17You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things beforehand, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.

  • 1 John 2:26
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    26These things I have written to you concerning those who try to deceive you.

  • Col 2:18
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    18Let no one beguile you of your reward in a false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

  • Jude 1:8
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    8Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries.

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    3For the time past of our life may suffice us to have done the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in sensuality, lusts, excess of wine, revelings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

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

  • Eph 4:14
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    14That we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive;

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    10And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

  • 1 Tim 4:1-2
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    1Now the Spirit speaks clearly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits, and doctrines of demons;

    2Speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

  • 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.

  • 2 Tim 2:26
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    26and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.

  • Jas 1:14-15
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    14But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.

    15Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin: and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

  • Titus 1:10-11
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    10For there are many insubordinate, both idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

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

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    19Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,

  • Col 2:23
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    23These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.

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    3For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, they will gather to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

  • Gal 2:4
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    4And that because of false brethren stealthily brought in, who came in secretly to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

  • Rom 1:29
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    29Being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers,

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    4He is proud, knowing nothing, but obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,