New American Standard Bible 2020

2 Peter 2:12-15

12But 1these, like unreasoning animals, 2born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, using abusive speech where they have no knowledge, will in 3the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,

13suffering wrong as 4the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to 5revel in the 6daytime. They are stains and blemishes, 7reveling in their 8deceptions as they 9feast with you,

14having eyes full of adultery 10that never cease from sin, 11enticing 12unstable souls, having hearts trained in 13greed, 14accursed children;

15abandoning 15the right way, they have gone astray, having followed 16the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved 17the 18reward of unrighteousness;

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Notes

1. 2 Peter 2:12 Jude 10 ↩
2. 2 Peter 2:12 Jer 12:3; Col 2:22 ↩
3. 2 Peter 2:12 Lit their destruction also ↩
4. 2 Peter 2:13 2 Pet 2:15 ↩
5. 2 Peter 2:13 Rom 13:13 ↩
6. 2 Peter 2:13 1 Thess 5:7 ↩
7. 2 Peter 2:13 Rom 13:13 ↩
8. 2 Peter 2:13 One early ms love feasts ↩
9. 2 Peter 2:13 1 Cor 11:21; Jude 12 ↩
10. 2 Peter 2:14 Lit and unceasing from sin ↩
11. 2 Peter 2:14 2 Pet 2:18 ↩
12. 2 Peter 2:14 James 1:8; 2 Pet 3:16 ↩
13. 2 Peter 2:14 2 Pet 2:3 ↩
14. 2 Peter 2:14 Eph 2:3 ↩
15. 2 Peter 2:15 Acts 13:10 ↩
16. 2 Peter 2:15 Num 22:5, 7; Deut 23:4; Neh 13:2; Jude 11; Rev 2:14 ↩
17. 2 Peter 2:15 2 Pet 2:13 ↩
18. 2 Peter 2:15 Or wages ↩

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Commentaries on 2 Peter 2