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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 MSB</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="../">MSB</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/msb/menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Majority Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/heb/2_peter/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Deliverance from False Prophets<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../jude/1.htm#3">Jude 1:3–16</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Many will follow in their depravity,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> and because of them the way of truth will be defamed. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction will not sleep.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> placing them in chains<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> of darkness to be held for judgment; <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight; <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span> reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">f</a></span> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment. <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">g</a></span> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Yet not even angels, though greater in strength and power, dare to bring such slanderous charges against them before the Lord.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">h</a></span> <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they will be destroyed.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">i</a></span> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They will receive the wages<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">j</a></span> is the wages of their wickedness. <p class="reg"> They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed. <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Bosor,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">k</a></span> who loved the wages of wickedness. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>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. <A name="18"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>These men are springs without water and clouds<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">l</a></span> driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is forever<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">m</a></span> reserved for them. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who have truly escaped<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">n</a></span> from others who live in error. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him. <A name="21"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of the<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">o</a></span> Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,”<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">p</a></span> and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> TR <i>destructive ways</i><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> NA, SBL, TH, TR, and WH <i>does not sleep</i><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Greek <i>cast them into Tartarus</i>; see the First Book of Enoch (1 Enoch 13:1–11 and 1 Enoch 20:1–4).<br><span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> TH and WH <i>in pits</i><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> WH does not include <i>to destruction</i>.<br><span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotesbot">f</span> Or <i>on future generations of the ungodly</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotesbot">g</span> Or <i>to blaspheme angelic majesties</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnotesbot">h</span> SBL does not include <i>before the Lord</i>.<br><span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotesbot">i</span> CT and HF <i>they too will be destroyed</i><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> <span class="footnotesbot">j</span> NA, SBL, and WH <i>The harm they will suffer is the wages</i><br><span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotesbot">k</span> NA, SBL, MT, and TR; WH <i>Beor</i><br><span class="fnverse">17</span> <span class="footnotesbot">l</span> CT <i>mists</i><br><span class="fnverse">17</span> <span class="footnotesbot">m</span> CT does not include <i>forever</i>.<br><span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotesbot">n</span> CT <i>who are just escaping</i><br><span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnotesbot">o</span> Some CT <i>our</i><br><span class="fnverse">22</span> <span class="footnotesbot">p</span> Proverbs 26:11<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, Majrity Standard Bible, MSB is produced in cooperation with <a href=//biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a>, <a href=//discoverybible.com>Discovery Bible</a>, <a href=//openbible.com>OpenBible.com</a>, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. 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