2 Peter 2:3

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 2 Cor 2:17 : 17 For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
  • 1 Thess 2:5 : 5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
  • Rom 16:18 : 18 For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
  • Deut 32:35 : 35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. The things that are to come on them shall make haste."
  • 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.
  • Titus 1:11 : 11 whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain's sake.
  • 2 Cor 12:17-18 : 17 Did I take advantage of you by anyone of them whom I have sent to you? 18 I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn't we walk in the same spirit? Didn't we walk in the same steps?
  • 2 Pet 1:16 : 16 For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
  • 2 Pet 2:1 : 1 But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;
  • 2 Pet 2:14-15 : 14 having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing; 15 forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For 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.
  • Jude 1:7 : 7 Even 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.
  • Jude 1:11 : 11 Woe 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.
  • Jude 1:15 : 15 to 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."
  • Rev 18:11-13 : 11 The merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise any more; 12 merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of ivory, every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble; 13 and cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, and people's bodies and souls.
  • Deut 24:17 : 17 You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;
  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.
  • 1 Tim 3:3 : 3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
  • 1 Tim 3:8 : 8 Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;
  • Ps 18:44 : 44 As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
  • Ps 66:3 : 3 Tell God, "How awesome are your deeds! Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you.
  • Ps 81:15 : 15 The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.
  • Isa 5:19 : 19 Who say, "Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!"
  • Isa 30:13-14 : 13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant. 14 He will break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won't be found among the broken piece a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."
  • Isa 56:11 : 11 Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can't understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
  • Isa 60:22 : 22 The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation; I, Yahweh, will hasten it in its time."
  • Jer 6:13 : 13 "For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.
  • Jer 8:10 : 10 Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall possess them: for everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely.
  • Ezek 13:19 : 19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.
  • Mic 3:11 : 11 Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, "Isn't Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us."
  • Hab 3:3 : 3 God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.
  • Mal 1:10 : 10 "Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you," says Yahweh of Armies, "neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
  • Luke 18:8 : 8 I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"
  • Luke 20:20 : 20 They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
  • Luke 22:47 : 47 While he was still speaking, behold, a multitude, and he who was called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He came near to Jesus to kiss him.
  • John 2:16 : 16 To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace!"
  • 1 Pet 2:8 : 8 and, "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.
  • 1 Pet 5:2 : 2 Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;
  • Titus 1:7 : 7 For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

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  • 2 Pet 2:1-2
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    1 But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

    2 Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.

  • 2 Pet 2:12-15
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    12 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,

    13 receiving 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;

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

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

  • 2 Pet 2:17-19
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    17 These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

    18 For, 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;

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

  • 2 Pet 2:4
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    4 For 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 Tim 6:9-10
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    9 But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

    10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

  • Jude 1:10-13
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    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.

    11 Woe 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.

    12 These 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;

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

  • Eph 5:6-7
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    6 Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

    7 Therefore don't be partakers with them.

  • 2 Thess 2:10-12
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    10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

    11 Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;

    12 that they all might be judged who didn't believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

  • 2 Tim 3:6
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    6 For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

  • Jude 1:4
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    4 For 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.

  • Rom 16:18
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    18 For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

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

  • 2 Tim 2:17
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    17 and their word will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;

  • Jude 1:15-18
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    15 to 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."

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

    17 But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    18 They said to you that "In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts."

  • Col 2:4
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    4 Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

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

  • Rom 2:5
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    5 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

  • Jas 5:2-3
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    2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.

    3 Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

  • Mark 12:40
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    40 those who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation."

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

  • Hab 2:9
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    9 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

  • 2 Pet 3:7
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    7 But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

  • 1 Tim 4:2
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    2 through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

  • Jude 1:8
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    8 Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

  • Prov 1:19
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    19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

  • Jude 1:6
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    6 Angels who didn't keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

  • 2 Tim 3:13
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    13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

  • Rev 18:15
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    15 The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, will stand far away for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning;

  • 1 Tim 6:5
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    5 constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

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

  • 2 Tim 4:3
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    3 For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;

  • Luke 20:47
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    47 who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation."

  • 2 Tim 2:14
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    14 Remind 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.