2 Peter 2:2

New Century Version

Many will follow their evil ways and say evil things about the way of truth.

Cross References

Genesis 19:5

They called to Lot, “Where are the two men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have sexual relations with them.”

Psalm 18:21

I have followed the ways of the Lord; I have not done evil by turning away from my God.

Isaiah 35:8

A road will be there; this highway will be called “The Road to Being Holy.” Evil people will not be allowed to walk on that road; only good people will walk on it. No fools will go on it.

Jeremiah 6:16

This is what the Lord says: “Stand where the roads cross and look. Ask where the old way is, where the good way is, and walk on it. If you do, you will find rest for yourselves. But they have said, ‘We will not walk on the good way.’

Matthew 22:16

They sent some of their own followers and some people from the group called Herodians. They said, “Teacher, we know that you are an honest man and that you teach the truth about God’s way. You are not afraid of what other people think about you, because you pay no attention to who they are.

Matthew 24:24

False Christs and false prophets will come and perform great wonders and miracles. They will try to fool even the people God has chosen, if that is possible.

Matthew 7:14

But the gate is small and the road is narrow that leads to true life. Only a few people find that road.

Mark 12:14

They came to him and said, “Teacher, we know that you are an honest man. You are not afraid of what other people think about you, because you pay no attention to who they are. And you teach the truth about God’s way. Tell us: Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?

Mark 13:22

False Christs and false prophets will come and perform great wonders and miracles. They will try to fool even the people God has chosen, if that is possible.

John 14:6

Jesus answered, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. The only way to the Father is through me.

Acts 13:10

and said, “You son of the devil! You are an enemy of everything that is right! You are full of evil tricks and lies, always trying to change the Lord’s truths into lies.

Acts 14:2

But some people who did not believe excited the others and turned them against the believers.

Acts 16:17

This girl followed Paul and us, shouting, “These men are servants of the Most High God. They are telling you how you can be saved.”

Acts 18:26

Apollos began to speak very boldly in the synagogue, and when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him to their home and helped him better understand the way of God.

Acts 19:9

But some of them became stubborn. They refused to believe and said evil things about the Way of Jesus before all the people. So Paul left them, and taking the followers with him, he went to the school of a man named Tyrannus. There Paul talked with people every day

Acts 22:4

I persecuted the people who followed the Way of Jesus, and some of them were even killed. I arrested men and women and put them in jail.

Acts 24:14

But I will tell you this: I worship the God of our ancestors as a follower of the Way of Jesus. The others say that the Way of Jesus is not the right way. But I believe everything that is taught in the law of Moses and that is written in the books of the Prophets.

Romans 2:24

just as the Scriptures say: “Those who are not Jews speak against God’s name because of you.”

1 Timothy 5:14

So I want the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their homes. Then no enemy will have any reason to criticize them.

Titus 2:5

to be wise and pure, to be good workers at home, to be kind, and to yield to their husbands. Then no one will be able to criticize the teaching God gave us.

Titus 2:8

Speak the truth so that you cannot be criticized. Then those who are against you will be ashamed because there is nothing bad to say about us.

1 Peter 2:12

People who do not believe are living all around you and might say that you are doing wrong. Live such good lives that they will see the good things you do and will give glory to God on the day when Christ comes again.

2 Peter 2:12

But these people speak against things they do not understand. They are like animals that act without thinking, animals born to be caught and killed. And, like animals, these false teachers will be destroyed.

2 Peter 2:15

These false teachers left the right road and lost their way, following the way Balaam went. Balaam was the son of Beor, who loved being paid for doing wrong.

2 Peter 2:18

They brag with words that mean nothing. By their evil desires they lead people into the trap of sin—people who are just beginning to escape from others who live in error.

2 Peter 2:21

Yes, it would be better for them to have never known the right way than to know it and to turn away from the holy teaching that was given to them.

2 Peter 2:7

But he saved Lot from those cities. Lot, a good man, was troubled because of the filthy lives of evil people.

Jude 1:10

But these people speak against things they do not understand. And what they do know, by feeling, as dumb animals know things, are the very things that destroy them.

Jude 1:15

judge every person. He is coming to punish all who are against God for all the evil they have done against him. And he will punish the sinners who are against God for all the evil they have said against him.”

Jude 1:4

Some people have secretly entered your group. Long ago the prophets wrote about these people who will be judged guilty. They are against God and have changed the grace of our God into a reason for sexual sin. They also refuse to accept Jesus Christ, our only Master and Lord.

Jude 1:7

Also remember the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and the other towns around them. In the same way they were full of sexual sin and people who desired sexual relations that God does not allow. They suffer the punishment of eternal fire, as an example for all to see.

Revelation 12:9

The giant dragon was thrown down out of heaven. (He is that old snake called the devil or Satan, who tricks the whole world.) The dragon with his angels was thrown down to the earth.

Revelation 13:14

It fools those who live on earth by the miracles it has been given the power to do. It does these miracles to serve the first beast. The second beast orders people to make an idol to honor the first beast, the one that was wounded by the deadly sword but sprang to life again.

Revelation 13:8

And all who live on earth will worship the beast—all the people since the beginning of the world whose names are not written in the Lamb’s book of life. The Lamb is the One who was killed.