Parallel Verses

John Wesley New Testament

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own desires, and their mouth speaketh great swelling things, having mens persons in admiration for advantage.

New American Standard Bible

These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; they speak arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of gaining an advantage.

King James Version

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

Holman Bible

These people are discontented grumblers, walking according to their desires; their mouths utter arrogant words, flattering people for their own advantage.

International Standard Version

These people are complainers and faultfinders, following their own desires. They say arrogant things and flatter people in order to take advantage of them.

A Conservative Version

These are grumblers, fault-finders, going according to their lusts, and their mouth speaks overblown things, marveling personages for the sake of advantage.

American Standard Version

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaketh great swelling words ), showing respect of persons for the sake of advantage.

Amplified

These people are [habitual] murmurers, griping and complaining, following after their own desires [controlled by passion]; they speak arrogantly, [pretending admiration and] flattering people to gain an advantage.

An Understandable Version

These people are gripers and complainers, living according to their own [evil] desires, whose mouths speak boastfully, and who show partiality [toward certain people] to gain some advantage.

Anderson New Testament

These are murmurers, fault-finders, walking ac cording to their own desires; and their mouth speaks boastful words, while they admire persons for the sake of gain.

Bible in Basic English

These are the men who make trouble, ever desiring change, going after evil pleasures, using high-sounding words, respecting men's position in the hope of reward.

Common New Testament

These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; they speak arrogantly, flattering people for their own advantage.

Daniel Mace New Testament

These are murmurers, complainers, who pursue their own passions: their language swells with flattery, which they offer to the personages of men from a prospect of gain.

Darby Translation

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts; and their mouth speaks swelling words, admiring persons for the sake of profit.

Emphatic Diaglott Bible

These are murmurers, and complainers, who walk according to their own lusts; and their mouths speak great swelling words. They admire persons for the sake of gain.

Godbey New Testament

These are querulous grumblers, going forth according to their own lusts; and their mouth speaking swelling words, admiring persons for the sake of gain.

Goodspeed New Testament

These men are grumblers, dissatisfied with life. They go where their passions lead, their talk is arrogant and they cultivate people in the hope of gain.

Julia Smith Translation

These are murmurers, discontented, going according to their eager desires; and their mouth speaks exceeding bulky things, admiring faces on account of advantage.

King James 2000

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaks great swelling words, holding men in admiration for the sake of advantage.

Lexham Expanded Bible

These [people] are grumblers, discontented, proceeding according to their desires, and their mouths speaking pompous [words], {showing partiality to gain an advantage}.

Modern King James verseion

These are murmurers, complainers, leading lives according to their lusts. And their mouth speaks proud things, admiring faces for the sake of gain.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts, whose mouths speak proud things. They have men in great reverence because of advantage.

Moffatt New Testament

For these people are murmurers, grumbling at their lot in life ??they fall in with their own passions, their talk is arrogant, they pay court to men to benefit themselves.

Montgomery New Testament

For these are murmurers, always complaining. They always go where their passions lead, and their mouth speaks great swelling words, while they pay court to men for the sake of the advantage they can get.

NET Bible

These people are grumblers and fault-finders who go wherever their desires lead them, and they give bombastic speeches, enchanting folks for their own gain.

New Heart English Bible

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

Noyes New Testament

These are murmurers, complaining of their lot, walking according to their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words; admiring mens persons, for the sake of profit.

Sawyer New Testament

These are complainers, censorious, walking after their inordinate desires, and their mouth speaks proud words, showing admiration of persons for the sake of gain.

The Emphasized Bible

These, are murmurers, complainers, according to their covetings, going on, - and, their mouth, speaketh great swelling words, - holding persons in admiration, for profit's sake.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

These men are murmurers, complainers at their lot in life, walking after their own corrupt passions; and their mouth utters hyperbolically pompous expressions, pretending high personal admiration, in order to make their advantage.

Twentieth Century New Testament

These men are always murmuring, and complaining of their lot; they follow where their passions lead them; they have arrogant words upon their lips; and they flatter men for the sake of what they can get from them.

Webster

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

Weymouth New Testament

These men are murmurers, ever bemoaning their lot. Their lives are guided by their evil passions, and their mouths are full of big, boastful words, while they treat individual men with admiring reverence for the sake of the advantage they can gain.

Williams New Testament

These persons are grumblers, ever complaining about their lot. They live to satisfy their evil passions, their lips boast arrogant things, and they flatter others for personal gain.

World English Bible

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

Worrell New Testament

These are murmurers, complainers, walking according to their own desires; and their mouth speaks great swelling words; admiring men's persons, for the sake of profit.

Worsley New Testament

These are murmurers, complainers, who walk according to their own irregular desires; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, with admiration of certain persons for some advantage of their own.

Youngs Literal Translation

These are murmurers, repiners; according to their desires walking, and their mouth doth speak great swellings, giving admiration to persons for the sake of profit;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
οὗτος οὗτοι αὕτη αὕται 
Houtos 
this, these, he, the same, this man, she, they,
Usage: 258

are
εἰσί 
Eisi 
are, be, were, have, not tr,
Usage: 97

γογγυστής 
Goggustes 
Usage: 1

μεμψίμοιρος 
mempsimoiros 
Usage: 1

πορεύομαι 
Poreuomai 
go, depart, walk, go way,
Usage: 101

κατά 
Kata 
according to, after, against, in, by, daily , as,
Usage: 428


Usage: 0

ἐπιθυμία 
Epithumia 
Usage: 35

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0


Usage: 0

στόμα 
Stoma 
Usage: 63

λαλέω 
Laleo 
Usage: 235

ὑπέρογκος 
Huperogkos 
Usage: 2

θαυμάζω 
Thaumazo 
Usage: 42

πρόσωπον 
Prosopon 
Usage: 70

θαυμάζω 
Thaumazo 
Usage: 42

because of
χάριν 
Charin 
Usage: 8

References

Context Readings

The Apostates' Doom

15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of them of all their ungodly deeds, which they have impiously committed, and of all the grievous things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. 16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own desires, and their mouth speaketh great swelling things, having mens persons in admiration for advantage. 17 But ye, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Cross References

2 Peter 2:18

For by speaking swelling words of vanity, they allure thro' the desire of the flesh, thro' wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them that live in error.

2 Peter 2:10

But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise government: presumptuous, self-willed; they are not afraid to rail at dignities:

1 Corinthians 10:10

Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

Jude 1:18

For they told you, In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly desires.

Luke 5:30

But the scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

Luke 15:2

And the Pharisees and scribes murmured saying, This man receiveth sinners and eateth with them.

Luke 19:7

And seeing it, they all murmured, saying, He is gone to be guest with a sinner.

John 6:41

The Jews then murmured about him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.

John 6:61

Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured about this, said to them, Doth this offend you?

Galatians 5:16

I say then, walk by the Spirit, and fulfil not the desire of the flesh.

Galatians 5:24

And they that are Christ's, have crucified the flesh with its affections and desires.

Philippians 2:14

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

1 Thessalonians 4:5

Not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles who know not God.

1 Timothy 6:5

evil surmisings, Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, supposing the gain is godliness. From such withdraw thyself.

2 Timothy 4:3

For the time will come, when they will not endure sound doctrine, but will heap to themselves teachers, according to their own desires, having itching ears.

James 1:14-15

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own desire and inticed.

James 2:1-9

My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. For if there come into your assembly a man with a gold ring,

1 Peter 1:14

As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to your former desires, in your ignorance;

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly desires,

1 Peter 4:2

(for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin) That ye may no longer live the rest of your time in the flesh, to the desire of men, but to the will of God.

2 Peter 2:1-3

But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall likewise be false teachers among you, who will privily bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

2 Peter 3:3

that there will come scoffers in the last days,

Jude 1:15

To execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of them of all their ungodly deeds, which they have impiously committed, and of all the grievous things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

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