2 Peter 2:18 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁸ For by uttering boastful, empty words,  they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped  from those who live in error.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ For uttering loud boasts of folly, they beguile and lure with lustful desires of the flesh those who are barely escaping from them who are wrongdoers.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;

Common English Bible

¹⁸ With empty, self-important speech, they use sinful cravings and unrestrained immorality to ensnare people who have only just escaped life with those who have wandered from the truth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ For, speaking with the arrogance of vanity, they lure, by the desires of fleshly pleasures, those who are fleeing to some extent, who are being turned from error,

2 Peter 2:18 Cross References

1 Kings 13:19

and the man of God went back with him, ate food in his house, and drank water.

Ezekiel 35:13

You boasted against me  with your mouth, and spoke many words against me. I heard it myself!

Daniel 11:36

‘Then the king will do whatever he wants.  He will exalt and magnify himself above every god,  and he will say outrageous things against the God of gods.  He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed,  because what has been decreed will be accomplished.

Daniel 4:30

the king exclaimed, ‘Is this not Babylon the Great that I have built to be a royal residence by my vast power and for my majestic glory? ’

Acts 2:40

With many other words he testified and strongly urged them, saying, ‘Be saved from this corrupt  generation! ’

Acts 8:9

A man named Simon had previously practised sorcery in that city and amazed the Samaritan people, while claiming to be somebody great.

Romans 13:13

Let us walk with decency,  as in the daytime: not in carousing and drunkenness;  not in sexual impurity and promiscuity; not in quarrelling and jealousy.

Ephesians 4:17

Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thoughts.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god  or object of worship,  so that he sits  in God’s temple, proclaiming that he himself is God.

James 5:5

You have lived luxuriously on the earth and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts  in a day of slaughter.

2 Peter 1:4

By these he has given us very great and precious promises,  so that through them you may share in the divine nature,  escaping the corruption that is in the world because of evil desire.

2 Peter 2:14

They have eyes full of adultery  that never stop looking for sin. They seduce unstable people and have hearts trained in greed. Children under a curse!

2 Peter 2:2

Many will follow their depraved ways, and the way of truth will be maligned because of them.

2 Peter 2:20

For if, having escaped the world’s impurity through the knowledge of the Lord  and Saviour Jesus Christ,  they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first.

2 Peter 2:7

and if he rescued righteous Lot,  distressed by the depraved behaviour of the immoral

2 Peter 3:17

Therefore, dear friends, since you know this in advance, be on your guard,  so that you are not led away by the error of lawless people and fall from your own stable position.

Jude 1:13

They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameful deeds; wandering stars  for whom the blackness of darkness  is reserved for ever.

Revelation 13:11

Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb,  , but it spoke like a dragon.