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2 Peter 2:10-16
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10 and especially those who go after the flesh in defiling lust[a] and who despise authority.

Bold and arrogant, they do not tremble in awe as they[b] blaspheme majestic beings, 11 whereas angels, who are greater in strength and power, do not bring against them a demeaning judgment.[c] 12 But these persons, like irrational animals born only with natural instincts for capture and killing, blaspheming about things[d] they do not understand, in their destruction will also be destroyed, 13 being harmed as the wages of unrighteousness. Considering reveling in the daytime a pleasure, they are stains and blemishes, carousing in their deceitful pleasures when they[e] feast together with you, 14 having eyes full of desire for an adulteress and unceasing from sin, enticing unstable persons, and[f] having hearts trained for greediness. Accursed children! 15 By[g] leaving the straight path, they have gone astray, because they[h] followed the way of Balaam the son of Bosor,[i] who loved the wages of unrighteousness, 16 but received a rebuke for his own lawlessness: a speechless donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet’s madness[j].

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:10 Literally “in lust of defilement,” translated here as an attributive genitive
  2. 2 Peter 2:10 Here “as” is supplied as a component of the participle (“blaspheme”) which is understood as temporal
  3. 2 Peter 2:11 Some manuscripts have “a demeaning judgment from the Lord”
  4. 2 Peter 2:12 Literally “with reference to which”
  5. 2 Peter 2:13 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“feast together”) which is understood as temporal
  6. 2 Peter 2:14 Here “and” is supplied in keeping with English style
  7. 2 Peter 2:15 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“leaving”) which is understood as means
  8. 2 Peter 2:15 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“followed”) which is understood as causal
  9. 2 Peter 2:15 Although some English versions use “Beor” here, this is due to harmonization with the Old Testament; the vast majority of Greek manuscripts read “Bosor” here
  10. 2 Peter 2:16 Literally “the of the prophet madness”
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