2 Peter 2:2 - Tree of Life Version

² Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result the way of the truth will be maligned.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² And many will follow their immoral ways and lascivious doings; because of them the true Way will be maligned and defamed.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of.

Common English Bible

² Many will follow them in their unrestrained immorality, and because of these false teachers the way of truth will be slandered.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And many persons will follow their indulgences; through such persons, the way of truth will be blasphemed.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And many shall follow their riotousnesses, through whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

2 Peter 2:2 Cross References

Genesis 19:5

And they called out to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have relations with them!”

Psalm 18:21

Adonai rewarded me for my righteousness. For the cleanness of my hands He repaid me.

Isaiah 35:8

A highway will be there—a roadway. It will be called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel on it. It is for the one who walks the way. Fools will not go astray.

Jeremiah 6:16

Thus says Adonai: “Stand in the roads and look. Ask for the ancient paths— where the good way is— and walk in it. Then you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We won’t walk in it.’

Matthew 22:16

And they sent to Him some of their disciples, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that You are honest and teach the way of God in truth. And what others think doesn’t concern You, for You do not look at men’s appearance.

Matthew 24:24

For false messiahs and false prophets will rise up and show great signs and wonders so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen.

Matthew 7:14

How narrow is the gate and difficult the way that leads to life, and those who find it are few.”

Mark 12:14

They come and say to Him, “Teacher, we know that You are honest, and what others think doesn’t concern You. You don’t look at men’s appearance, but teach the way of God according to the truth. Is it permitted to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?

Mark 13:22

For false messiahs and false prophets will rise up and show signs and wonders to lead astray, if possible, the chosen.

John 14:6

Yeshua said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life! No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Acts 13:10

and said, “O you, full of all deceit and trickery, son of the devil, enemy of all righteousness—will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?

Acts 14:2

But the Jewish people who would not believe stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

Acts 16:17

Following after Paul and us, she kept shouting, saying, “These men are servants of El Elyon, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation.”

Acts 18:26

This man began speaking out boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained the way of God more accurately.

Acts 19:9

But when they were hardening and refusing to believe, speaking evil of the Way before the whole group, he withdrew from them, taking the disciples with him, debating daily in the hall of Tyrannus.

Acts 22:4

I persecuted this Way to the death, arresting both men and women and throwing them in prisons—

Acts 24:14

“But this I confess to you, that according to the Way (which they call a sect), I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything written in the Torah and the Prophets.

Romans 2:24

For as it is written, “the name of God is slandered among the nations because of you.”

1 Timothy 5:14

Therefore, I want the younger widows to get married, have children, manage a household, and give no opportunity to the enemy for slander.

Titus 2:5

to be self-controlled, pure, managing their household, kind, submitted to their own husbands, so that God’s word may not be dishonored.

Titus 2:8

sound speech beyond criticism—so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing bad to say about us.

1 Peter 2:12

Keep your conduct honorable among the Gentiles. Then while they speak against you as evildoers, they may—from noticing your good deeds—glorify God in the day of visitation.

2 Peter 2:12

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.

2 Peter 2:15

They have abandoned the straight way. They have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.

2 Peter 2:18

For by mouthing grandiosities that amount to nothing, they entice in sensual fleshly passions those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.

2 Peter 2:21

For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after learning about it, to turn back from the holy commandment passed on to them.

2 Peter 2:7

He rescued Lot, a righteous man deeply troubled by the shameless immorality of the wicked.

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.

Jude 1:15

to execute judgment against all. He will convict all the ungodly for all their ungodly deeds that they have done in an ungodly way, and for all of the harsh things ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”

Jude 1:4

For certain people have secretly slipped in—those who from long ago have been marked out for this judgment. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into indecency and deny our only Master and Lord, Yeshua the Messiah.

Jude 1:7

In the same way as these angels, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them—having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after a different sort of flesh—are displayed as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was thrown down—the ancient serpent, called the devil and satan, who deceives the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Revelation 13:14

And he deceives those who dwell on the earth through the signs he is permitted to perform, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image in honor of the beast who has the sword wound yet lived.

Revelation 13:8

All who dwell on the earth shall worship him—everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life of the Lamb who was slain.