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2 Peter 2:18

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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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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.


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.


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.


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


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.


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


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


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


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


‘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.


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? ’


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


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


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


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!


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.


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


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





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