God’s Word Translation
2 Peter 2:13
13and lose what their wrongdoing earned them. These false teachers are stains and blemishes. They take pleasure in holding wild parties in broad daylight. They especially enjoy deceiving you while they eat 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
11Angels, who have more strength and power than these teachers, don’t bring an insulting judgment against them from the Lord. 12These false teachers insult what they don’t understand. They are like animals, which are creatures of instinct that are born to be caught and killed. So they will be destroyed like animals and lose what their wrongdoing earned them. These false teachers are stains and blemishes. They take pleasure in holding wild parties in broad daylight. They especially enjoy deceiving you while they eat with you. 14They’re always looking for an adulterous woman. They can’t stop looking for sin as they seduce people who aren’t sure of what they believe. Their minds are focused on their greed. They are cursed. 15These false teachers have left the straight path and wandered off to follow the path of Balaam, son of Beor. Balaam loved what his wrongdoing earned him.
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 3:11How horrible it will be for the wicked! Disaster will strike them. What they have done will be done to them.
- Romans 2:8anger and fury on those who, in selfish pride, refuse to believe the truth and who follow what is wrong.
- Philippians 3:19In the end they will be destroyed. Their own emotions are their god, and they take pride in the shameful things they do. Their minds are set on worldly things.
- 2 Timothy 4:14Alexander the metalworker did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will pay him back for what he did.
- Hebrews 2:2After all, the message that the angels brought was reliable, and every violation and act of disobedience was properly punished.
- Jude 1:12These people are a disgrace at the special meals you share with other believers. They eat with you and don’t feel ashamed. They are shepherds who care ⌞only⌟ for themselves. They are dry clouds blown around by the winds. They are withered, uprooted trees without any fruit. As a result, they have died twice.
- Revelation 18:6Do to her what she has done. Give her twice as much as she gave. Serve her a drink in her own cup twice as large as the drink she served others.
- Romans 13:13We should live decently, as people who live in the light of day. Wild parties, drunkenness, sexual immorality, promiscuity, rivalry, and jealousy cannot be part of our lives.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:7People who sleep, sleep at night; people who get drunk, get drunk at night.
- 1 Peter 4:4Unbelievers insult you now because they are surprised that you no longer join them in the same excesses of wild living.
- Ephesians 5:27Then he could present it to himself as a glorious church, without any kind of stain or wrinkle—holy and without faults.
- 1 Corinthians 11:20When you gather in the same place, you can’t possibly be eating 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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