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2 Peter 2:14

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Every time they look at a woman, they want her. They are always sinning this way. And they lead weaker people into the trap of sin. They have taught themselves well to be greedy. They are under a curse.

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They boast with words that mean nothing. They lead people into the trap of sin. They find people who have just escaped from a wrong way of life and lead them back into sin. They do this by using the evil things people want to do in their human weakness.

These false teachers only want your money. So they will use you by telling you things that are not true. But the judgment against these false teachers has been ready for a long time. And they will not escape God who will destroy them.

In the past all of us lived like that, trying to please our sinful selves. We did all the things our bodies and minds wanted. Like everyone else in the world, we deserved to suffer God’s anger just because of the way we were.

That’s what he says in all his letters when he writes about these things. There are parts of his letters that are hard to understand, and some people give a wrong meaning to them. These people are ignorant and weak in faith. They also give wrong meanings to the other Scriptures. But they are destroying themselves by doing that.

Then we will no longer be like babies. We will not be people who are always changing like a ship that the waves carry one way and then another. We will not be influenced by every new teaching we hear from people who are trying to deceive us—those who make clever plans and use every kind of trick to fool others into following the wrong way.

People like that are not serving our Lord Christ. They are only pleasing themselves. They use fancy talk and say nice things to fool those who don’t know about evil.

because of your idea that you must have separate groups to show who the real believers are!

You like to have praise from each other. But you never try to get the praise that comes from the only God. So how can you believe?

You snakes! You are so evil. How can you say anything good? What people say with their mouths comes from what fills their hearts.

This is all there is in the world: wanting to please our sinful selves, wanting the sinful things we see, and being too proud of what we have. But none of these comes from the Father. They come from the world.

False messiahs and false prophets will come and do miracles and wonders, trying to fool the people God has chosen, if that is possible.

A black man cannot change the color of his skin, and a leopard cannot change its spots. In the same way, Jerusalem, you cannot change and do good. You always do bad things.

Some people enjoy acting as if they are humble and love to worship angels. They always talk about the visions they have seen. Don’t listen to them when they say you are wrong because you don’t do these things. It is so foolish for them to feel such pride, because it is all based on their own human ideas.

It will be bad for them. They have followed the way that Cain went. To make money, they have given themselves to following the wrong way that Balaam went. They have fought against God like Korah did. And like Korah, they will be destroyed.

The Lord says, “This will happen when my sword in the sky is covered with blood.” Look, the Lord’s sword will cut through Edom. He judged them guilty, and they must die.

Such a woman might be beautiful, but don’t let that beauty tempt you. Don’t let her eyes capture you.

“Then the king will say to the evil people on his left, ‘Get away from me. God has already decided that you will be punished. Go into the fire that burns forever—the fire that was prepared for the devil and his angels.

But I tell you that if a man looks at a woman and wants to sin sexually with her, he has already committed that sin with her in his mind.

In that city there will never be a baby who lives only a few days, and every older person will live for a long, long time. A person who lives 100 years will be called young. And whoever doesn’t live that long will be considered cursed.

“Wash yourselves and make yourselves clean. Stop doing the evil things I see you do. Stop doing wrong.

“If I have desired another woman or waited at my neighbor’s door to sin with his wife,

If I ever stepped off the right path, if my eyes led my heart to do evil, or if my hands are dirty with sin,

It was thrown down out of heaven. (This giant dragon is that old snake, the one called the devil or Satan, who leads the whole world into the wrong way.) The dragon and its angels were thrown to the earth.

Don’t follow her. She has lost her way and does not even know it. Be careful. Stay on the road that leads to life.

‘This is what the Lord GOD says: Bad things will happen to you women. You sew cloth bracelets for people to wear on their arms. You make special scarves for people to wear on their heads. You say those things have magic powers to control people’s lives. You trap the people only to keep yourselves alive!




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