2 Peter 2:12

Good News Translation

But these people act by instinct, like wild animals born to be captured and killed; they attack with insults anything they do not understand. They will be destroyed like wild animals,

Cross References

Psalm 49:10

Anyone can see that even the wise die, as well as the foolish and stupid. They all leave their riches to their descendants.

Psalm 92:6

This is something a fool cannot know; someone who is stupid cannot understand:

Psalm 94:8

My people, how can you be such stupid fools? When will you ever learn?

Proverbs 14:32

Wicked people bring about their own downfall by their evil deeds, but good people are protected by their integrity.

Jeremiah 10:21

I answered, “Our leaders are stupid; they do not ask the Lord for guidance. This is why they have failed, and our people have been scattered.

Jeremiah 10:8

All of them are stupid and foolish. What can they learn from wooden idols?

Jeremiah 12:3

But, Lord, you know me; you see what I do and how I love you. Drag these evil people away like sheep to be butchered; guard them until it is time for them to be slaughtered.

Jeremiah 4:22

The Lord says, “My people are stupid; they don't know me. They are like foolish children; they have no understanding. They are experts at doing what is evil, but failures at doing what is good.”

Jeremiah 5:4

Then I thought, “These are only the poor and ignorant. They behave foolishly; they don't know what their God requires, what the Lord wants them to do.

Ezekiel 21:31

You will feel my anger when I turn it loose on you like a blazing fire. And I will hand you over to brutal men, experts at destruction.

Mark 7:22

commit adultery, be greedy, and do all sorts of evil things; deceit, indecency, jealousy, slander, pride, and folly—

John 8:21

Again Jesus said to them, “I will go away; you will look for me, but you will die in your sins. You cannot go where I am going.”

Galatians 6:8

If you plant in the field of your natural desires, from it you will gather the harvest of death; if you plant in the field of the Spirit, from the Spirit you will gather the harvest of eternal life.

Colossians 2:22

All these refer to things which become useless once they are used; they are only human rules and teachings.

2 Peter 1:4

In this way he has given us the very great and precious gifts he promised, so that by means of these gifts you may escape from the destructive lust that is in the world, and may come to share the divine nature.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom while they themselves are slaves of destructive habits—for we are slaves of anything that has conquered us.

Jude 1:10

But these people attack with insults anything they do not understand; and those things that they know by instinct, like wild animals, are the very things that destroy them.