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|2 Pedro 2:11|
yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
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|2 Pedro 2:12|
But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
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|2 Pedro 2:13|
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, revelling in their pleasures while they feast with you. [Some manuscripts: in their love feasts]
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|2 Pedro 2:14|
With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed — an accursed brood!
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|2 Pedro 2:15|
They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.
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|2 Pedro 2:16|
But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey — a beast without speech — who spoke with a man’s voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.
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|2 Pedro 2:17|
These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
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|2 Pedro 2:18|
For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of sinful human nature, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error.
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|2 Pedro 2:19|
They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity — for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
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|2 Pedro 2:20|
If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning.
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