2 Peter 2:12

World English Bible (2000)

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

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  • Jude 1:10 : 10 But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, they are destroyed in these things.
  • Jer 12:3 : 3 But you, Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
  • Ezek 21:31 : 31 I will pour out my indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men, skillful to destroy.
  • John 8:21 : 21 Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can't come."
  • Gal 6:8 : 8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
  • 2 Pet 1:4 : 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
  • Ps 49:10 : 10 For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.
  • Ps 92:6 : 6 A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:
  • Ps 94:8 : 8 Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
  • Jer 4:22 : 22 "For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."
  • Jer 5:4 : 4 Then I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God.
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
  • Jer 10:21 : 21 For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Yahweh: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jude 1:10-13
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    10But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, they are destroyed in these things.

    11Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah's rebellion.

    12These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

    13wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

  • 2 Pet 2:13-15
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    13receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

    14having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

    15forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

  • 2 Pet 2:10-11
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    10but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

    11whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don't bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord.

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

    8Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

  • 2 Pet 2:17-20
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    17These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

    18For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

    19promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

    20For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and 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 immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.

    3In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

    4For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

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

    23and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

    24Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

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

  • Rom 1:31-32
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    31without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

    32who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy 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 animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

  • 2 Pet 2:22
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    22But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire."

  • 2 Tim 2:16-17
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    16But shun empty chatter, for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

    17and their word will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;

  • Jude 1:19
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    19These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

  • Jude 1:15-16
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    15to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him."

    16These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

  • 2 Tim 3:9
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    9But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.

  • Rom 1:28-29
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    28Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

    29being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

  • 2 Tim 3:3
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    3without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,

  • Titus 1:11
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    11whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain's sake.

  • Eph 4:19
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    19who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

  • 2 Tim 2:14
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    14Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don't argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

  • Jude 1:4
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    4For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

  • Job 4:20
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    20Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

  • 2 Thess 1:8
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    8giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

  • 2 Tim 3:6
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    6For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various 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 by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

  • Rom 1:26
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    26For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

  • Rom 2:2
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    2We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

  • Titus 3:3
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    3For we 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 the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm.