2 Peter 2:12 - Tree of Life Version

¹² But these people are like irrational animals—creatures of instinct born to be captured and killed. They malign what they don’t understand, and in their destruction they will be utterly destroyed.

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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

Will he live forever— and never see the Pit?

Psalm 92:6

How great are Your works, Adonai! How profound are Your thoughts!

Psalm 94:8

Pay attention, stupid among the people! Fools, when will you comprehend?

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked is brought down in his calamity yet the righteous has a refuge even in death.

Jeremiah 10:21

For the shepherds are stupid! They have not sought Adonai. Therefore they have not acted wisely and all their flocks are scattered.”

Jeremiah 10:8

They are totally stupid and foolish. Discipline is useless—it’s wood!

Jeremiah 12:3

But You have known me, Adonai. You see me, and examine my heart toward You. Drag them off like sheep for slaughter. Set them apart for the day of carnage.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are foolish. They do not know Me. They are senseless children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they do not know.”

Jeremiah 5:4

Then I said: These are only the poor. They are foolish. For they do not know the way of Adonai, the ordinance of their God.

Ezekiel 21:31

Thus says Adonai Elohim: “Remove the turban, take off the crown! This will no longer be the same. What is low will be exalted. What is high will be abased.

Mark 7:22

adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, lustfulness, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.

John 8:21

Then again Yeshua spoke to them, “I am going away. You will look for Me and die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”

Galatians 6:8

For the one who sows in the flesh will reap corruption from the flesh. But the one who sows in the Ruach will reap from the Ruach eternal life.

Colossians 2:22

These all lead to decay with use, based as they are on man-made commands and teachings.

2 Peter 1:4

Through these things He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, since you have escaped the corruption that evil desires have brought into the world.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption—for a person is a slave to whatever has overcome him.

Jude 1:10

But these people slander whatever they do not understand. And whatever they do understand instinctively—like animals without reason—by these things they are destroyed.