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2 Peter 2:12

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These people are like mindless beasts, produced like farm animals to be captured and slaughtered. They condemn things they don't know anything about, and just like animals they will be destroyed.

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Everyone knows that the wise die, those who are foolish and stupid too, leaving what they have to the next generation.

Only senseless people and fools don't know and understand this:

Take another look, you stupid people! Fools—when will you ever get the point?

Wicked people are brought down by their own evil actions, but those who live right are confident even in death.

The “shepherds” have become stupid—they don't ask the Lord for advice. That's why they have failed, and all their flock has been scattered.

Yet these “wise men” are completely foolish and stupid, because they think they can be taught by useless idols made of wood!

But you know me, Lord, you see me, and examine what I think about you. Drag off these people like sheep to be slaughtered; keep them apart for the time when they're killed.

“My people are stupid; they don't know me. They are foolish children who just don't understand. They're experts at doing evil, but they don't know how to do good.”

Then I said to myself, “These people are only the poor—they're just fools who don't know any better. They certainly don't know what the Lord wants, God's right way of living.

I will deal with you in my anger; I will breathe my fire of anger on you; I will hand you over to cruel men who are experts in destruction.

greed, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, pride, thoughtlessness—

Jesus told them again, “I'm leaving, and you'll search for me, but you'll die in your sin. You can't come where I'm going.”

If you sow according to your sinful human nature, from that nature you'll reap self-destruction. But if you sow according to the Spirit, from the Spirit you'll reap eternal life.

These commands refer to things that don't last since they're used up, and they're based on man-made requirements and teachings.

Through these promises you can share in the divine nature, being rid of the corruption caused by this world's evil desires.

They promise them freedom, even though they themselves are slaves to depravity. “You are a slave to whatever conquers you.”

But these people ridicule whatever they don't understand; and what they do understand they instinctively follow like unthinking animals—this is what destroys them.




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