2 Peter 2:13

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suffering harm as the wages for their harmful ways. By considering it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight, they are stains and blemishes, indulging in their deceitful pleasures when they feast together with you.

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  • Rom 13:13 : 13 Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.
  • Rom 2:8-9 : 8 but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness. 9 There will be affliction and distress on everyone who does evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek,
  • 1 Pet 4:4 : 4 So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.
  • 2 Pet 2:15 : 15 By forsaking the right path they have gone astray, because they followed the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,
  • Jude 1:12-16 : 12 These men are dangerous reefs at your love feasts, feasting without reverence, feeding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit– twice dead, uprooted; 13 wild sea waves, spewing out the foam of their shame; wayward stars for whom the utter depths of eternal darkness have been reserved. 14 Now Enoch, the seventh in descent beginning with Adam, even prophesied of them, saying,“Look! The Lord is coming with thousands and thousands of his holy ones, 15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict every person of all their thoroughly ungodly deeds that they have committed, and of all the harsh words that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” 16 These people are grumblers and fault-finders who go wherever their desires lead them, and they give bombastic speeches, enchanting folks for their own gain.
  • Rev 18:6 : 6 Repay her the same way she repaid others; pay her back double corresponding to her deeds. In the cup she mixed, mix double the amount for her.
  • 1 Cor 11:20-22 : 20 Now when you come together at the same place, you are not really eating the Lord’s Supper. 21 For when it is time to eat, everyone proceeds with his own supper. One is hungry and another becomes drunk. 22 Do you not have houses so that you can eat and drink? Or are you trying to show contempt for the church of God by shaming those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I will not praise you for this!
  • Eph 5:27 : 27 so that he may present the church to himself as glorious– not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.
  • Phil 3:19 : 19 Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.
  • 1 Thess 5:7-8 : 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night and those who get drunk are drunk at night. 8 But since we are of the day, we must stay sober by putting on the breastplate of faith and love and as a helmet our hope for salvation.
  • 2 Tim 4:14 : 14 Alexander the coppersmith did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him in keeping with his deeds.
  • Heb 2:2-3 : 2 For if the message spoken through angels proved to be so firm that every violation or disobedience received its just penalty, 3 how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first communicated through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,
  • Isa 3:11 : 11 Woe to the wicked sinners! For they will get exactly what they deserve.
  • Song 4:7 : 7 You are altogether beautiful, my darling! There is no blemish in you!

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  • 2 Pet 2:14-15
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    14Their eyes, full of adultery, never stop sinning; they entice unstable people. They have trained their hearts for greed, these cursed children!

    15By forsaking the right path they have gone astray, because they followed the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

  • Jude 1:10-13
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    10But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.

    11Woe to them! For they have traveled down Cain’s path, and because of greed have abandoned themselves to Balaam’s error; hence, they will certainly perish in Korah’s rebellion.

    12These men are dangerous reefs at your love feasts, feasting without reverence, feeding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit– twice dead, uprooted;

    13wild sea waves, spewing out the foam of their shame; wayward stars for whom the utter depths of eternal darkness have been reserved.

  • 2 Pet 2:12
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    12But these men, like irrational animals– creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed– do not understand whom they are insulting, and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed,

  • 1 Pet 4:3-4
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    3For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries.

    4So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.

  • 2 Pet 2:2-3
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    2And many will follow their debauched lifestyles. Because of these false teachers, the way of truth will be slandered.

    3And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.

  • 2 Pet 2:17-20
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    17These men are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm, for whom the utter depths of darkness have been reserved.

    18For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.

    19Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.

    20For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first.

  • Jas 5:5
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    5You have lived indulgently and luxuriously on the earth. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

  • Prov 2:14
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    14who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil;

  • Jude 1:18
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    18For they said to you,“In the end time there will come scoffers, propelled by their own ungodly desires.”

  • Jude 1:7-8
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    7So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns, since they indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire in a way similar to these angels, are now displayed as an example by suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

    8Yet these men, as a result of their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and insult the glorious ones.

  • Rom 1:29
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    29They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

  • Eph 4:19
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    19Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

  • 2 Tim 3:2-4
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    2For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

    3unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good,

    4treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God.

  • Jude 1:16
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    16These people are grumblers and fault-finders who go wherever their desires lead them, and they give bombastic speeches, enchanting folks for their own gain.

  • Rom 1:32
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    32Although they fully know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.

  • Eph 5:6-7
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    6Live in the Light Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.

    7Therefore do not be sharers with them,

  • 2 Thess 2:12
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    12And so all of them who have not believed the truth but have delighted in evil will be condemned.

  • Jude 1:4
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    4For certain men have secretly slipped in among you– men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe– ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Pet 2:10
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    10especially those who indulge their fleshly desires and who despise authority. Brazen and insolent, they are not afraid to insult the glorious ones,

  • Prov 4:17
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    17Indeed they have eaten bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.

  • 2 Tim 2:17
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    17and their message will spread its infection like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are in this group.

  • Rom 13:13
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    13Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.

  • Titus 3:3
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    3For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

  • Rom 2:8
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    8but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness.

  • 2 Tim 3:13
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    13But evil people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.

  • Rom 16:18
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    18For these are the kind who do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of the naive.

  • 2 Thess 2:10
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    10and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9The look on their faces testifies to their guilt; like the people of Sodom they openly boast of their sin. Woe to them! For they bring disaster on themselves.

  • 2 Pet 3:16
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    16speaking of these things in all his letters. Some things in these letters are hard to understand, things the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they also do to the rest of the scriptures.

  • Phil 2:15
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    15so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the world

  • Gal 5:21
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    21envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!

  • 1 Cor 5:11
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    11But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who calls himself a Christian who is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or verbally abusive, or a drunkard, or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.

  • 1 Tim 1:10
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    10sexually immoral people, practicing homosexuals, kidnappers, liars, perjurers– in fact, for any who live contrary to sound teaching.

  • Rom 2:2
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    2Now we know that God’s judgment is in accordance with truth against those who practice such things.

  • Rom 2:5
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    5But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed!

  • Hos 7:3
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    3Political Intrigue and Conspiracy in the Palace The royal advisers delight the king with their evil schemes, the princes make him glad with their lies.