'Men' in the Bible

for never did any prophecy come by human will, but men sent by God spoke as they were impelled by the Holy Spirit.

But when righteous Lot was sore distressed by the gross misconduct of immoral men He rescued him.

Since all this is so, the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from temptation, and on the other hand how to keep the unrighteous under punishment in readiness for the Day of Judgement,

But these men, like brute beasts, created (with their natural instincts)

Their very eyes are full of adultery--being eyes which never cease from sin. These men set traps to catch unstedfast souls, their own hearts being well trained in greed. They are fore-doomed to God's curse!

These people are wells without water, mists driven along by a storm, men for whom the dense darkness has been reserved.

For, while they pour out their frivolous and arrogant talk, they use earthly cravings--every kind of immorality--as a bait to entrap men who are just escaping from the influence of those who live in error.

But, above all, remember that, in the last days, men will come who make a mock at everything--men governed only by their own passions,

and that, by means of these, the then existing race of men was overwhelmed with water and perished.

The Lord is not slow in fulfilling His promise, in the sense in which some men speak of slowness. But He bears patiently with you, His desire being that no one should perish but that all should come to repentance.

Since all these things are thus pre-destined to dissolution, what sort of men ought you to be found to be in all holy living and godly conduct,

You, therefore, dear friends, having been warned beforehand, must continually be on your guard so as not to be led astray by the false teaching of immoral men nor fall from your own stedfastness.