2 Peter 2:12

New American Bible - revised edition

But these people, like irrational animals born by nature for capture and destruction, revile things that they do not understand, and in their destruction they will also be destroyed,

Cross References

Psalm 49:10

Will he live on forever, then, and never see the Pit of Corruption?

Psalm 92:6

How great are your works, Lord! How profound your designs!

Psalm 94:8

Understand, you stupid people! You fools, when will you be wise?

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked are overthrown by their wickedness, but the just find a refuge in their integrity.

Jeremiah 10:21

How stupid are the shepherds! The Lord they have not sought; For this reason they have failed, and all their flocks scattered.

Jeremiah 10:8

One and all they are stupid and senseless, the instruction from nonentities—only wood!

Jeremiah 12:3

Lord, you know me, you see me, you have found that my heart is with you. Pick them out like sheep for the butcher, set them apart for the day of slaughter.

Jeremiah 4:22

My people are fools, they do not know me; They are senseless children, without understanding; They are wise at evil, but they do not know how to do good.

Jeremiah 5:4

I thought: These are only the lowly, they behave foolishly; For they do not know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.

Ezekiel 21:31

Thus says the Lord God: Off with the turban and away with the crown! Nothing shall be as it was! Exalt the lowly and bring the exalted low!

Mark 7:22

adultery, greed, malice, deceit, licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly.

John 8:21

He said to them again, “I am going away and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.”

Galatians 6:8

because the one who sows for his flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows for the spirit will reap eternal life from the spirit.

Colossians 2:22

These are all things destined to perish with use; they accord with human precepts and teachings.

2 Peter 1:4

Through these, he has bestowed on us the precious and very great promises, so that through them you may come to share in the divine nature, after escaping from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desire.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom, though they themselves are slaves of corruption, for a person is a slave of whatever overcomes him.

Jude 1:10

But these people revile what they do not understand and are destroyed by what they know by nature like irrational animals.