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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>2 Peter 2 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_peter/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_peter/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > 2 Peter 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_peter/1.htm" title="2 Peter 1">◄</a> 2 Peter 2 <a href="../2_peter/3.htm" title="2 Peter 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/2_peter/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">False Prophets and Teachers</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek Tartarus">a</a></sup></span> and committed them to chains<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts pits">b</a></sup></span> of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts an example to those who were to be ungodly">c</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>(for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or temptations">d</a></sup></span> and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and especially those who indulge<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek who go after the flesh">e</a></sup></span> in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.</p><p class="regular">Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts love feasts">f</a></sup></span> while they feast with you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>They have eyes full of adultery,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or eyes full of an adulteress">g</a></sup></span> insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm. For them the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface">h</a></sup></span> of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> Greek <i language="Greek">Tartarus</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> Some manuscripts <i>pits</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Some manuscripts <i>an example to those who were to be ungodly</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> Or <i>temptations</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> Greek <i><span class="catch-word">who</span> go after the flesh</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> Some manuscripts <i>love feasts</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> Or <i>eyes full of an adulteress</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">h</span> <span class="fnverse">19</span> For the contextual rendering of the Greek word <i language="Greek">doulos</i>, see <a href="../">>Preface</a><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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