2 Peter 2:12 - The Text-Critical English New Testament

But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like irrational beasts, creatures of instinct born for capture and destruction, and in the destruction of those beasts they will be destroyed,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But these [people]! Like unreasoning beasts, mere creatures of instinct, born [only] to be captured and destroyed, railing at things of which they are ignorant, they shall utterly perish in their [own] corruption [in their destroying they shall surely be destroyed],

American Standard Version (1901)

But these, as creatures without reason, born mere animals to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters whereof they are ignorant, shall in their destroying surely be destroyed,

Common English Bible

These false teachers are like irrational animals, mere creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They slander what they don’t understand and, like animals, they will be destroyed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Yet truly, these others, like irrational beasts, naturally fall into traps and into ruin by blaspheming whatever they do not understand, and so they shall perish in their corruption,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But these men, as irrational beasts, naturally tending to the snare and to destruction, blaspheming those things which they know not, shall perish in their corruption,

2 Peter 2:12 Cross References

Mark 7:22

theft, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.

John 8:21

Then Jesus said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”

Galatians 6:8

For he who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but he who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

Colossians 2:22

Such regulations are based on the commandments and doctrines of men, and apply to things that will all decay with use.

2 Peter 1:4

Through these he has given us his precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desires.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption. For a man is a slave to whatever masters him.

Jude 1:10

Yet these men slander whatever they do not understand, and they are corrupted by what they, like irrational beasts, instinctively comprehend.