2 Peter 2:12 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹² 1 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of justice, than after they have known it, to turn back from that holy commandment which was delivered to them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² 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)

¹² 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

¹² 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

¹² 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

¹² 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

Psalm 49:10

7 For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; nor shall his glory descend with him.

Psalm 92:6

3 They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God.

Psalm 94:8

5 Until justice be turned into judgment: and they that are near it are all the upright in heart.

Proverbs 14:32

A peaceable tongue is a tree of life: but that which is immoderate, shall crush the spirit.

Jeremiah 10:21

Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying: Hear ye my voice, and do all things that I command you: and you shall be my people, and I will be your God:

Jeremiah 10:8

6 The portion of Jacob is not like these: for it is he who formed all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name.

Jeremiah 12:3

1 They have laid it waste, and it hath mourned for me. With desolation is all the land made desolate; because there is none that considereth in the heart.

Jeremiah 4:22

0 But when thou art spoiled what wilt thou do? though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, and paintest thy eyes with stibic stone, thou shalt dress thyself out in vain: thy lovers have despised thee, they will seek thy life.

Jeremiah 5:4

2 They have denied the Lord, and said, It is not he: and the evil shall not come upon us: we shall not see the sword and famine.

Ezekiel 21:31

They have abused father and mother in thee, they have oppressed the stranger in the midst of thee, they have grieved the fatherless and widow in thee.

Mark 7:22

0 And when she was come into her house, she found the girl lying upon the bed, and that the devil was gone out.

John 8:21

9 And he that sent me, is with me, and he hath not left me alone: for I do always the things that please him.

Galatians 6:8

7 From henceforth let no man be troublesome to me; for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus in my body.

Colossians 2:22

But now put you also all away: anger, indignation, malice, blasphemy, filthy speech out of your mouth.

2 Peter 1:4

3 But I think it meet as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance.

2 Peter 2:19

Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

Jude 1:10

9 These are they, who separate themselves, sensual men, having not the Spirit.