2 Peter 2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

2 Peter 2False Prophets and Their Punishment

1 the way of truth will be maligned.

3 of deepest darkness to be kept until the judgment;

5 and made them an example of what is coming to the ungodly;

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11whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not bring against them a slanderous judgment.

12These people, however, are like irrational animals, mere creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed. They slander what they do not understand, and as those creatures are destroyed, they also will be destroyed,

13 the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.

14They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!

15 who loved the wages of doing wrong

16but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.

17 desires of the flesh they entice people who have just escaped from those who live in error.

19 Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overpowered, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

21Heb 6.4ff; 2 Pet 3.2; Jude 3For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment that was handed on to them.

22Prov 26.11It has happened to them according to the true proverb,

“The dog turns back to its own vomit,”

and,

“The sow is washed only to wallow in the mud.”

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