2 Peter 2:14

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Eph 2:3 : 3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 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;
  • 2 Pet 3:16 : 16 as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
  • 1 John 2:16 : 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.
  • Jas 1:8 : 8 He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
  • Eph 4:14 : 14 that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
  • 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.
  • Rev 12:9 : 9 The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
  • 2 Sam 11:2-4 : 2 It happened at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked on the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look on. 3 David send and inquired after the woman. One said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? 4 David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house.
  • Job 31:7 : 7 If my step has turned out of the way, If my heart walked after my eyes, If any defilement has stuck to my hands,
  • Job 31:9 : 9 "If my heart has been enticed to a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;
  • Prov 6:25 : 25 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, Neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
  • Isa 1:16 : 16 Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; Cease to do evil.
  • Isa 34:5 : 5 For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky: behold, it shall come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, to judgment.
  • Isa 65:20 : 20 There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.
  • Jer 13:23 : 23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
  • Matt 5:28 : 28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
  • Matt 12:34 : 34 You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
  • Matt 25:41 : 41 Then he will say also to those on the left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
  • Mark 13:22 : 22 For there will arise false christs and false prophets, and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
  • John 5:44 : 44 How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?
  • 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.
  • 1 Cor 11:19 : 19 For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.
  • Col 2:18 : 18 Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

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    12But 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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    2Many will follow their immoral{TR reads "destructive" instead of "immoral"} ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.

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  • 2 Pet 2:18-20
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    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 by whom a man is overcome, by the same is he also brought into bondage.

    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 therein and overcome, the last state has become worse with them than the first.

  • Rom 1:29-31
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    29being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

    30backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

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  • Eph 4:18-19
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    18being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

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

  • 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, in these things are they destroyed.

    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.

  • Mark 7:22
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    22covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

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

  • Rom 3:14-15
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    14"Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."

    15"Their feet are swift to shed blood.

  • 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.

  • 2 Tim 3:2-4
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    2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

    3without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,

    4traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

  • 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 lasciviousness, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

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

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    6Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

  • Prov 2:14-15
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    14Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;

    15Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:

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    9But 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.

  • Col 3:5
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    5Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

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

  • Ps 73:7
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    7Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

  • 1 Tim 1:10
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    10for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

  • Rom 16:18
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    18For 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.

  • 1 Tim 5:12
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    12having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.

  • 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 2:14
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    14But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

  • Rev 2:22
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    22Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her works.

  • Gal 5:19
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    19Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

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

  • Prov 1:16
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    16For their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

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

  • Prov 6:18
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    18A heart that devises wicked schemes, Feet that are swift in running to mischief,

  • 2 Thess 2:10
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    10and 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.

  • 2 Pet 2:10
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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;

  • Deut 32:5
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    5They have dealt corruptly with him, [they are] not his children, [it is] their blemish; [They are] a perverse and crooked generation.

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    13But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

  • Prov 24:2
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    2For their hearts plot violence, And their lips talk about mischief.