2 Peter 2:18

New Testament · SCRIPTURE

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.

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KJV

King James Version

For when they speak great swelling [words] of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

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WEB

World English Bible

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

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ASV

American Standard Version

For, uttering great swelling [words] of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;

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BLB

Berean Literal Bible

For speaking great swelling words of vanity, they entice in [the] passions of [the] flesh to sensuality those barely escaping from those conducting themselves in error,

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

2 Peter 2

¹⁶ But he was rebuked for his transgression by a donkey, otherwise without speech, that spoke with a man’s voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.

¹⁷ These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.

¹⁸ With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.

¹⁹ They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.

²⁰ If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.

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