Tree of Life Version
2 Peter 2:14
14They have eyes full of adultery that never stop sinning, enticing unstable souls. They have hearts trained in greed—a cursed brood!
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
12But these people are like irrational animals—creatures of instinct born to be captured and killed. They malign what they don’t understand, and in their destruction they will be utterly destroyed. 13They will be paid back for what they have done—evil for evil. They consider carousing in broad daylight a pleasure. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceitful pleasures while feasting together with you. They have eyes full of adultery that never stop sinning, enticing unstable souls. They have hearts trained in greed—a cursed brood! 15They have abandoned the straight way. They have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness. 16But he received a rebuke for his own wrongdoing. A dumb donkey spoke with a man’s voice and put a stop to the prophet’s madness.
Read all of 2 Peter 22 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 11:2One evening David rose from his bed and strolled on the roof of the royal palace. Then from the roof he saw a woman washing—a very beautiful woman.
- Job 31:7If my step has strayed from the way, if my heart has walked after my eyes, or if any defilement has stuck to my hands,
- Proverbs 6:25Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyelids.
- Matthew 5:28But I tell you that everyone who looks upon a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
- 1 John 2:16For everything in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the boasting of life—is not from the Father but from the world.
- Isaiah 1:16“Wash and make yourselves clean. Put away the evil of your deeds from before My eyes. Cease to do evil.
- Jeremiah 13:23Can the Ethiopian change his skin? Or the leopard his spots? So, could you do good, that are accustomed to doing evil?
- Matthew 12:34You brood of vipers! How can you who are evil say anything good? For from the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.
- John 5:44How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and you do not seek the glory that comes from God alone?
- 2 Peter 2:18For by mouthing grandiosities that amount to nothing, they entice in sensual fleshly passions those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.
- 2 Peter 3:16He speaks about these matters in all of his letters. Some things in them are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist (as they also do with the rest of the Scriptures)—to their own destruction.
- Mark 13:22For false messiahs and false prophets will rise up and show signs and wonders to lead astray, if possible, the chosen.
- Romans 16:18For such people do not serve our Lord the Messiah, but only their own belly. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.
- 1 Corinthians 11:19for there must be factions among you, so that those among you who are tried and true may be evident.
- Ephesians 4:14As a result, we are no longer to be like children, tossed around by the waves and blown all over by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of men with cunning in deceitful scheming.
- Colossians 2:18Let no one disqualify you by insisting on false humility and worship of angels—going into detail about what he has seen, puffed up without cause by his fleshly mind.
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
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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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