New American Standard Bible 1995

2 Peter 2:9-22

9 1then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from 2temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the 3day of judgment, 10and especially those who 4 5indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and 6despise authority.

Daring, 7self-willed, they do not tremble when they 8revile angelic 9majesties, 11 10whereas angels who are greater in might and power do not bring a reviling judgment against them before the Lord. 12But 11these, like unreasoning animals, 12born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in 13the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed, 13suffering wrong as 14the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to 15revel in the 16daytime. They are stains and blemishes, 17reveling in their 18deceptions, as they 19carouse with you, 14having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, 20enticing 21unstable souls, having a heart trained in 22greed, 23accursed children; 15forsaking 24the right way, they have gone astray, having followed 25the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved 26the wages of unrighteousness; 16but he received a rebuke for his own transgression, 27for a mute donkey, speaking with a voice of a man, restrained the madness of the prophet.

17These are 28springs without water and mists driven by a storm, 29for whom the 30black darkness has been reserved. 18For speaking out 31arrogant words of 32vanity they 33entice by fleshly desires, by 34sensuality, those who barely 35escape from the ones who live in error, 19promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for 36by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved. 20For if, after they have 37escaped the defilements of the world by 38the knowledge of the 39Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again 40entangled in them and are overcome, 41the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 42For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from 43the holy commandment 44handed on to them. 22 45It has happened to them according to the true proverb, “46A dog returns to its own vomit,” and, “A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire.”

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Notes

1. 2 Peter 2:9 1 Cor 10:13; Rev 3:10 ↩
2. 2 Peter 2:9 Lit trial; or temptation ↩
3. 2 Peter 2:9 Matt 10:15; Jude 6 ↩
4. 2 Peter 2:10 Lit go after ↩
5. 2 Peter 2:10 2 Pet 3:3; Jude 16, 18 ↩
6. 2 Peter 2:10 Ex 22:28; Jude 8 ↩
7. 2 Peter 2:10 Titus 1:7 ↩
8. 2 Peter 2:10 Ex 22:28; Jude 8 ↩
9. 2 Peter 2:10 Lit glories ↩
10. 2 Peter 2:11 Jude 9 ↩
11. 2 Peter 2:12 Jude 10 ↩
12. 2 Peter 2:12 Jer 12:3; Col 2:22 ↩
13. 2 Peter 2:12 Lit their destruction also ↩
14. 2 Peter 2:13 2 Pet 2:15 ↩
15. 2 Peter 2:13 Rom 13:13 ↩
16. 2 Peter 2:13 1 Thess 5:7 ↩
17. 2 Peter 2:13 Rom 13:13 ↩
18. 2 Peter 2:13 One early ms reads love feasts ↩
19. 2 Peter 2:13 1 Cor 11:21; Jude 12 ↩
20. 2 Peter 2:14 2 Pet 2:18 ↩
21. 2 Peter 2:14 James 1:8; 2 Pet 3:16 ↩
22. 2 Peter 2:14 2 Pet 2:3 ↩
23. 2 Peter 2:14 Eph 2:3 ↩
24. 2 Peter 2:15 Acts 13:10 ↩
25. 2 Peter 2:15 Num 22:5, 7; Deut 23:4; Neh 13:2; Jude 11; Rev 2:14 ↩
26. 2 Peter 2:15 2 Pet 2:13 ↩
27. 2 Peter 2:16 Num 22:21, 23, 28, 30ff ↩
28. 2 Peter 2:17 Jude 12 ↩
29. 2 Peter 2:17 Jude 13 ↩
30. 2 Peter 2:17 Lit blackness of darkness ↩
31. 2 Peter 2:18 Jude 16 ↩
32. 2 Peter 2:18 Eph 4:17 ↩
33. 2 Peter 2:18 2 Pet 2:14 ↩
34. 2 Peter 2:18 2 Pet 2:2 ↩
35. 2 Peter 2:18 2 Pet 1:4; 2:20 ↩
36. 2 Peter 2:19 John 8:34; Rom 6:16 ↩
37. 2 Peter 2:20 2 Pet 2:18 ↩
38. 2 Peter 2:20 2 Pet 1:2 ↩
39. 2 Peter 2:20 2 Pet 1:11; 3:18 ↩
40. 2 Peter 2:20 2 Tim 2:4 ↩
41. 2 Peter 2:20 Matt 12:45; Luke 11:26 ↩
42. 2 Peter 2:21 Ezek 18:24; Heb 6:4ff; 10:26f; James 4:17 ↩
43. 2 Peter 2:21 Gal 6:2; 1 Tim 6:14; 2 Pet 3:2 ↩
44. 2 Peter 2:21 Jude 3 ↩
45. 2 Peter 2:22 Lit The thing of the true proverb has happened to them ↩
46. 2 Peter 2:22 Prov 26:11 ↩

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