Christian Standard Bible
2 Peter 2:13
13They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are spots and blemishes, delighting in their deceptions while they feast with you.
2 Peter 2:13 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
- New International Version (NIV)They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
- English Standard Version (ESV)suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you.
- New King James Version (NKJV)and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while they feast with you,
Context of 2 Peter 2:13
11however, angels, who are greater in might and power, do not bring a slanderous charge against them before the Lord. 12But these people, like irrational animals — creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed — slander what they do not understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are spots and blemishes, delighting in their deceptions while they feast with you. 14They have eyes full of adultery that never stop looking for sin. They seduce unstable people and have hearts trained in greed. Children under a curse! 15They have gone astray by abandoning the straight path and have followed the path of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of wickedness
Read all of 2 Peter 22 Peter 2:13 word by word
ἀδικούμενοι μισθὸν ἀδικίας. ἡδονὴν ἡγούμενοι τὴν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ τρυφήν, σπίλοι καὶ μῶμοι, ἐντρυφῶντες ἐν ταῖς ἀπάταις αὐτῶν συνευωχούμενοι ὑμῖν,Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
- And shall receiveκομίζωkolumbaō · to bring/be repaidG2865
- the rewardμισθόςmisthos · wageG3408
- of unrighteousnessἀδικίαadikia · unrighteousnessG93
- they that count itἡγέομαιhēgeomai · to governG2233
- pleasureἡδονήhēdonē · pleasureG2237
- to riotτρυφήtruphē · self-indulgenceG5172
- inἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
- the day timeἡμέραhēmera · dayG2250
- Spotsσπίλοςspilos · stainG4696
- andκαίkai · andG2532
- blemishesμῶμοςmōmos · blemishG3470
- sporting themselvesἐντρυφάωentruphaō · to revelG1792
- their ownαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
- deceivingsἀπάτηapatē · deceitG539
- while they feast withσυνευωχέομαιsuneuōcheō · to feast withG4910
- youσύsu · youG4771
Cross-references for 2 Peter 2:13
- Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked — it will go badly for them, for what they have done will be done to them.
- Romans 2:8but wrath and anger to those who are self-seeking and disobey the truth while obeying unrighteousness.
- Philippians 3:19Their end is destruction; their god is their stomach; their glory is in their shame; and they are focused on earthly things.
- 2 Timothy 4:14Alexander the coppersmith did great harm to me. The Lord will repay him according to his works.
- Hebrews 2:2For if the message spoken through angels was legally binding and every transgression and disobedience received a just punishment,
- Jude 1:12These people are dangerous reefs at your love feasts as they eat with you without reverence. They are shepherds who only look after themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds; trees in late autumn — fruitless, twice dead and uprooted.
- Revelation 18:6Pay her back the way she also paid, and double it according to her works. In the cup in which she mixed, mix a double portion for her.
- Romans 13:13Let us walk with decency, as in the daytime: not in carousing and drunkenness; not in sexual impurity and promiscuity; not in quarreling and jealousy.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:7For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
- 1 Peter 4:4They are surprised that you don’t join them in the same flood of wild living — and they slander you.
- Ephesians 5:27He did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.
- 1 Corinthians 11:20When you come together, then, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper.
Commentaries on 2 Peter 2:13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13They that count it pleasure to riot in the day time - Most sinners, in order to practice their abominable pleasures, seek the secrecy of the night; but these, bidding defiance to all decorum, decency, and shame, take the open day, and thus proclaim their impurities to the sun. Spots - and blemishes - They are a disgrace to the Christian name. Sporting themselves - Forming opinions which give license to sin, and then acting on those opinions; and thus…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness - The appropriate recompense of their wickedness in the future world. Such people do not always receive the due recompense of their deeds in the present life; and as it is a great and immutable principle that all will be treated, under the government of God, as they deserve, or that justice will be rendered to every rational being, it follows that there must be punishment in the future state. As they that…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-16Verses 10-16 Impure seducers and their abandoned followers, give themselves up to their own fleshly minds. Refusing to bring every thought to the obedience of Christ, they act against God's righteous precepts. They walk after the flesh, they go on in sinful courses, and increase to greater degrees of impurity and wickedness. They also despise those whom God has set in authority over them, and requires them to honour. Outward temporal good things are the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13reveling in their deception as they feast with you: Compare Jude 1:12. Early Christians often shared fellowship meals to honor the Lord (see Acts 2:46; 6:1). The false teachers used these meals as opportunities to deceive true believers. Some manuscripts say They revel in their fellowship meals as they feast with you. If correct, these false teachers were using the meals for self-indulgence (see 1 Corinthians 11:20–22).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. receive--"shall carry off as their due." reward of--that is, for their "unrighteousness" [Alford]. Perhaps it is implied, unrighteousness shall be its own reward or punishment. "Wages of unrighteousness" (2Pe 2:15) has a different sense, namely, the earthly gain to be gotten by "unrighteousness." in the daytime--Translate as Greek, "counting the luxury which is in the daytime (not restricted to night, as ordinary revelling. Or as Vulgate and Calvin…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 2 Peter 2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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