Thematic Bible
2 Peter 2:1 (show verse)
But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there will be false teachers, who, indeed, will stealthily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master Who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction:
2 Peter 2:2 (show verse)
and many will follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth will be defamed;
2 Peter 2:3 (show verse)
and, in covetousness, will they, with feigned words, make merchandise of you; for whom the judgment from of old lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.
2 Peter 2:4 (show verse)
For, if God spared not angels that sinned, but, hurling them down to Hell, delivered them up to pits of darkness, kept for judgment;
2 Peter 2:5 (show verse)
and spared not the old world; but preserved Noah, an eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing a flood upon a world of ungodly people;
2 Peter 2:6 (show verse)
and, turning to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, condemned them by an overthrow, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;
2 Peter 2:7 (show verse)
and delivered righteous Lot, distressed by the conduct of those who were impious in lasciviousness,
2 Peter 2:8 (show verse)
(for this righteous man, dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, was torturing his righteous soul from day to day with their lawless deeds):
2 Peter 2:9 (show verse)
the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous enduring punishment unto the day of judgment;
2 Peter 2:10 (show verse)
but especially those who walk after the flesh in a desire for pollution, and despise dominion; daring, self-willed, they tremble not, when railing at dignities;
2 Peter 2:11 (show verse)
whereas angels, though greater in might and power, bring not a railing judgment against them before the Lord.
2 Peter 2:12 (show verse)
But these, as irrational creatures, born naturally for capture and destruction, railing in matters of which they are ignorant, shall in their destruction be also destroyed,
2 Peter 2:13 (show verse)
suffering evil as wages of unrighteousness; accounting revelry in the daytime a pleasure; spots and blemishes; reveling in their deceivings, while feasting with you;
2 Peter 2:14 (show verse)
having eyes full of lustfulness, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstable souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of a curse;
2 Peter 2:15 (show verse)
leaving the right way, they were led astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,
2 Peter 2:16 (show verse)
but had a rebuke for his own transgression; a dumb beast-of-burden, speaking in man's voice, forbade the prophet's madness.
2 Peter 2:17 (show verse)
These are fountains without water, and mists driven by a storm, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved.
2 Peter 2:18 (show verse)
For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice, in desires of the flesh, by their lasciviousness, those just escaping from those who live in error;
2 Peter 2:19 (show verse)
promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what one is overcome by this he has become enslaved.
2 Peter 2:20 (show verse)
For if, after having escaped the defilements of the world in a full knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but, having again become entangled with these, they are overcome, the last state has become worse with them than the first.
2 Peter 2:21 (show verse)
For it were better for them not to have fully known the way of righteousness, than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
2 Peter 2:22 (show verse)
It has happened to them according to the true proverb, "A dog having returned to his own vomit"; and "A sow that was washed, to her wallowing in mire."