2 Peter 2 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

The Appearance of False Prophets

But false^G5578 prophets^G5578 also^G2532 appeared^G1096 among^G1722 the people^G2992, just^G5613 as^G5613 there will also^G2532 be false^G5572 teachers^G5572 among^G1722 you, who^G3748 will secretly^G3919 introduce^G3919 destructive^G684 heresies^G139, even^G2532 denying^G720 the Master^G1203 who bought^G59 them, bringing^G1863 swift^G5031 destruction^G684 upon^G1863 themselves^G1438.

2Pe 2:2

2Pe 2:2Many will follow their indecent behavior, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned;

2Pe 2:3

2Pe 2:3and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

2Pe 2:4

For if^G1487 God^G2316 did not spare^G5339 angels^G32 when they sinned^G264, but cast^G5020 them into^G5020 [fn]hell^G5020 and committed^G3860 them to [fn]pits^G4577 of darkness^G2217, held^G5083 for judgment^G2920;

2Pe 2:5

2Pe 2:5and did not spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, a [fn]preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

2Pe 2:6

2Pe 2:6and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example [fn]of what is coming for the ungodly;

2Pe 2:7

2Pe 2:7and if He rescued righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the perverted conduct of [fn]unscrupulous people

2Pe 2:8

2Pe 2:8(for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds),

2Pe 2:9

2Pe 2:9then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from [fn]a trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

2Pe 2:10

2Pe 2:10and especially those who [fn]indulge the flesh in its corrupt passion, and despise [fn]authority.

[fn]Reckless^G5113, self-centered^G829, they speak^G987 abusively^G987 of angelic [fn]majesties^G1391 without^G3756 trembling^G5141,

2Pe 2:11

2Pe 2:11whereas angels who are greater in might and power do not bring a demeaning judgment against them before the Lord.

2Pe 2:12

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

2Pe 2:13

2Pe 2:13suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their [fn]deceptions as they feast with you,

2Pe 2:14

2Pe 2:14having eyes full of adultery [fn]that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having hearts trained in greed, accursed children;

2Pe 2:15

2Pe 2:15abandoning the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the [fn]reward of unrighteousness;

2Pe 2:16

2Pe 2:16but he received a rebuke for his own offense, for a mute donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the insanity of the prophet.

2Pe 2:17

These^G3778 are springs^G4077 without^G504 water^G504 and mists^G3658 driven^G1643 by a storm^G2978, for whom^G3739 the [fn]black^G2217 darkness^G4655 has been reserved^G5083.

2Pe 2:18

2Pe 2:18For, while speaking out arrogant words of no value they entice by fleshly desires, by indecent behavior, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error,

2Pe 2:19

2Pe 2:19promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what anyone is overcome, by this he is enslaved.

2Pe 2:20

2Pe 2:20For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

2Pe 2:21

2Pe 2:21For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment handed on to them.

2Pe 2:22

2Pe 2:22 [fn]It has happened to them according to the true proverb, “A DOG RETURNS TO ITS OWN VOMIT,” and, “A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire.”

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NASB20 Footnotes

(2:4)

Gr Tartarus, a name used as a reference to the netherworld (hell)

(2:4)

One early ms chains of darkness

(2:5)

Or herald

(2:6)

One early ms to those who were going to live ungodly lives

(2:7)

Or disgraceful

(2:9)

Or temptation; one early ms trials (temptations)

Lit go after

Lit lordship

Or Audacious

Lit glories

Lit their destruction also

(2:13)

One early ms love feasts

(2:14)

Lit and unceasing from sin

(2:15)

Or wages

(2:17)

Lit blackness of darkness

(2:22)

Lit The thing of the true proverb has happened to them

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The Appearance of False Prophets

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