2 Peter 2:14

2 Peter 2:14 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
• New International Version (NIV)With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed—an accursed brood!
• English Standard Version (ESV)They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!
• New King James Version (NKJV)having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children.

Context of 2 Peter 2:14

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 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. They’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. 16But he was convicted for his evil. A donkey, which normally can’t talk, spoke with a human voice and wouldn’t allow the prophet to continue his insanity.

2 Peter 2:14 word by word

ὀφθαλμοὺς ἔχοντες μεστοὺς μοιχαλίδος καὶ ἀκαταπαύστους ἁμαρτίας, δελεάζοντες ψυχὰς ἀστηρίκτους, καρδίαν γεγυμνασμένην πλεονεξίας ἔχοντες, κατάρας τέκνα.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Havingἔχωechō · to have/beG2192
• eyesὀφθαλμόςophthalmos · eyeG3788
• fullμεστόςmestos · fullG3324
• of adulteryμοιχαλίςmoichalis · adulterousG3428
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• that cannot ceaseἀκατάπαυστοςakatapaustos · unceasingG180
• from sinἁμαρτίαhamartia · sinG266
• beguilingδελεάζωdeleazō · to enticeG1185
• unstableἀστήρικτοςastēriktos · unstableG793
• soulsψυχήpsuchē · soulG5590
• an heartκαρδίαkardia · heartG2588
• they have exercisedγυμνάζωgumnazō · to trainG1128
• with covetous practicesπλεονεξίαpleonexia · greedinessG4124
• cursedκατάραkatara · curseG2671
• childrenτέκνονteknon · childG5043

Cross-references for 2 Peter 2:14

• 2 Samuel 11:2Now, when evening came, David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the royal palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing, and she was very pretty.
• Job 31:7“If my steps have left the ⌞proper⌟ path, or my heart has followed ⌞the desire of⌟ my eyes, or my hands are stained ⌞with sin⌟,
• Proverbs 6:25Do not desire her beauty in your heart. Do not let her catch you with her eyes.
• Matthew 5:28But I can guarantee that whoever looks with lust at a woman has already committed adultery in his heart.
• 1 John 2:16Not everything that the world offers—physical gratification, greed, and extravagant lifestyles—comes from the Father. It comes from the world, and
• Isaiah 1:16“Wash yourselves! Become clean! Get your evil deeds out of my sight. Stop doing evil.
• Jeremiah 13:23Can Ethiopians change the color of their skin or leopards change their spots? Can you do good when you’re taught to do wrong?
• Matthew 12:34You poisonous snakes! How can you evil people say anything good? Your mouth says what comes from inside you.
• John 5:44How can you believe when you accept each other’s praise and don’t look for the praise that comes from the only God?
• 2 Peter 2:18They arrogantly use nonsense to seduce people by appealing to their sexual desires, especially to sexual freedom. They seduce people who have just escaped from those who live in error.
• 2 Peter 3:16He talks about this subject in all his letters. Some things in his letters are hard to understand. Ignorant people and people who aren’t sure of what they believe distort what Paul says in his letters the same way they distort the rest of the Scriptures. These people will be destroyed.
• Mark 13:22False messiahs and false prophets will appear. They will work miraculous signs and do wonderful things to deceive, if possible, those whom God has chosen.
• Romans 16:18People like these are not serving Christ our Lord. They are serving their own desires. By their smooth talk and flattering words they deceive unsuspecting people.
• 1 Corinthians 11:19Factions have to exist in order to make it clear who the genuine believers among you are.
• Ephesians 4:14Then we will no longer be little children, tossed and carried about by all kinds of teachings that change like the wind. We will no longer be influenced by people who use cunning and clever strategies to lead us astray.
• Colossians 2:18Let no one who delights in ⌞false⌟ humility and the worship of angels tell you that you don’t deserve a prize. Such a person, whose sinful mind fills him with arrogance, gives endless details of the visions he has seen.

Commentaries on 2 Peter 2:14

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14Having eyes full of adultery - · Of an adulteress; being ever bent on the gratification of their sensual desires, so that they are represented as having an adulteress constantly before their eyes, and that their eyes can take in no other object but her. But instead of of an adulteress, the Codex Alexandrinus, three others, with the Coptic, Vulgate, and one copy of the Itala, together with several of the fathers, have , of adultery. Cannot cease from sin…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14Having eyes full of adultery - Margin, as in the Greek, “an adulteress;” that is, gazing with desire after such persons. The word “full” is designed to denote that the corrupt passion referred to had wholly seized and occupied their minds. The eye was, as it were, full of this passion; it saw nothing else but some occasion for its indulgence; it expressed nothing else but the desire. The reference here is to the sacred festival mentioned in the previous…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. 10-16This description of the false teachers focuses more on how they were living than on what they were teaching.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. full of adultery--literally, "full of an adulteress," as though they carried about adulteresses always dwelling in their eyes: the eye being the avenue of lust [Horneius]. Bengel makes the adulteress who fills their eyes, to be "alluring desire." that cannot cease--"that cannot be made to cease from sin." beguiling--"laying baits for." unstable--not firmly established in faith and piety. heart--not only the eyes, which are the channel, but the heart…Read the comment

Topics related to 2 Peter 2:14

• Adultery
• Anarchy
• Character
• Covetousness
• Doctrines
• Heart
• Instability
• Minister, Christian
• Wicked (People)
• Worldliness

In the dictionaries

• Chain
• Damnable
• Eye
• Perish
• Privily
• Railing
• Reserve
• Riot
• Swift
• Wantonness

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