Ecclesiastes 3:18
New American Standard Bible
18 I said [a]to myself regarding the sons of mankind, “God is testing them in order for them to see that they are as (A)animals, they to themselves.”
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- Ecclesiastes 3:18 Lit in my heart
Ecclesiastes 3:18
Amplified Bible
18 I said to myself regarding the sons of men, “God is surely testing them in order for them to see that [by themselves, without God] they are [only] animals.”
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Ecclesiastes 3:18
New International Version
18 I also said to myself, “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals.(A)
Ecclesiastes 3:18
King James Version
18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
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Psalm 73:22
New American Standard Bible
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- Psalm 73:22 Lit with You
Psalm 73:22
Amplified Bible
22
Then I was senseless and ignorant;
I was like a beast before You.
Psalm 73:22
New International Version
Psalm 73:22
King James Version
22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
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Psalm 49:12
New American Standard Bible
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- Psalm 49:12 Lit are destroyed
Psalm 49:12
Amplified Bible
12
But man, with all his [self] honor and pomp, will not endure;
He is like the beasts that perish.
Psalm 49:12
New International Version
Psalm 49:12
King James Version
12 Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
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Psalm 49:20
New American Standard Bible
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- Psalm 49:20 Lit are destroyed
Psalm 49:20
Amplified Bible
20
A man [who is held] in honor,
Yet who lacks [spiritual] understanding and a teachable heart, is like the beasts that perish.
Psalm 49:20
New International Version
Psalm 49:20
King James Version
20 Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
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Titus 1:12-13
New American Standard Bible
12 One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “(A)Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” 13 This testimony is true. For this reason (B)reprimand them (C)severely so that they may be (D)sound in the faith,
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Titus 1:12-13
Amplified Bible
12 One of them [Epimenides, a Cretan], a [a]prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” 13 This description is true. So rebuke them sharply so that they will be sound in the faith and free from doctrinal error,
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- Titus 1:12 Epimenides was a highly regarded sixth century b.c. poet and philosopher from Crete. His description of his own people had by this time become a proverb.
Titus 1:12-13
New International Version
12 One of Crete’s own prophets(A) has said it: “Cretans(B) are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.”[a] 13 This saying is true. Therefore rebuke(C) them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith(D)
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- Titus 1:12 From the Cretan philosopher Epimenides
Titus 1:12-13
King James Version
12 One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, the Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
13 This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
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2 Peter 2:12
New American Standard Bible
12 But (A)these, like unreasoning animals, (B)born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, using abusive speech where they have no knowledge, will in [a]the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,
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- 2 Peter 2:12 Lit their destruction also
2 Peter 2:12
Amplified Bible
12 But these [false teachers], like unreasoning animals, [mere] creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed, reviling things they do not understand, will also perish in their own corruption [in their destroying they will be destroyed],
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2 Peter 2:12
New International Version
12 But these people blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like unreasoning animals, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like animals they too will perish.(A)
2 Peter 2:12
King James Version
12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
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Jude 10
New American Standard Bible
10 But (A)these people disparage all the things that they do not understand; and (B)all the things that they know by instinct, (C)like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed.
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Jude 10
Amplified Bible
10 But these men sneer at anything which they do not understand; and whatever they do know by [mere] instinct, like unreasoning and irrational beasts—by these things they are destroyed.
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Jude 10
New International Version
10 Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct—as irrational animals do—will destroy them.(A)
Jude 10
King James Version
10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
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