2 Peter 2:12

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

These people are no better than senseless animals that live by their feelings and are born to be caught and killed. They speak evil of things they don't know anything about. But their own corrupt deeds will destroy them.

Cross References

Psalm 49:10

We see that wise people die, and so do stupid fools. Then their money is left for someone else.

Psalm 92:6

for an ignorant fool to know or understand.

Psalm 94:8

Can't you fools see? Won't you ever learn?

Proverbs 14:32

In times of trouble the wicked are destroyed, but even at death the innocent have faith.

Jeremiah 10:21

But I told them, “Our leaders were stupid failures, because they refused to listen to the LORD. And so we've been scattered like sheep.

Jeremiah 10:8

Idols are worthless, and anyone who worships them is a fool!

Jeremiah 12:3

But you know, LORD, how faithful I've always been, even in my thoughts. So drag my enemies away and butcher them like sheep!

Jeremiah 4:22

I heard the LORD say, “My people ignore me. They are foolish children who do not understand that they will be punished. All they know is how to sin.”

Jeremiah 5:4

Then I thought to myself, “These common people act like fools, and they have never learnt what the LORD their God demands of them.

Ezekiel 21:31

My furious anger will scorch you like fire, and I will hand you over to cruel men who are experts in killing.

Mark 7:22

unfaithfulness in marriage, greed, meanness, deceit, indecency, envy, insults, pride, and foolishness.

John 8:21

Jesus also told them, “I am going away, and you will look for me. But you cannot go where I am going, and you will die with your sins unforgiven.”

Galatians 6:8

If you follow your selfish desires, you will harvest destruction, but if you follow the Spirit, you will harvest eternal life.

Colossians 2:22

After these things are used, they are no longer good for anything. So why be bothered with the rules that humans have made up?

2 Peter 1:4

God made great and marvellous promises, so that his nature would become part of us. Then we could escape our evil desires and the corrupt influences of this world.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise freedom to everyone. But they are merely slaves of filthy living, because people are slaves of whatever controls them.

Jude 1:10

But these people insult powers they don't know anything about. They are like senseless animals that end up getting destroyed, because they live only by their feelings.