2 Peter 2:12

The Passion Translation

These individuals are nothing but brute beasts—irrational creatures, born in the wild to be caught and destroyed—and they will perish like beasts. They are professional insulters, who slander whatever they don’t understand, and in their destruction they will be destroyed.

Cross References

Psalm 49:10

The brightest and best, along with the foolish and senseless, God sees that they all will die one day, leaving their houses and wealth to others. Even though they name streets and lands after themselves, hoping to have their memory endure beyond the grave, becoming legends in their own minds, their home address is now the cemetery!

Psalm 92:6

Such amazing mysteries are found within every miracle that nearly everyone seems to miss. Those with no discernment can never really discover the deep and glorious secrets hidden in your ways.

Psalm 94:8

But you’d better watch out, you stupid fools! You’d better wise up! Why would you act like God doesn’t exist? Do you really think that God can’t hear their cries?

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked are crushed by every calamity, but the righteous find a strong hope in the time of death.

Jeremiah 10:21

For the leaders of the nation are foolish, and they refuse Yahweh’s guidance. Therefore, without insight, they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.

Jeremiah 10:8

What wisdom could they glean from a block of wood? They are foolish blockheads, one and all.

Jeremiah 12:3

But as for me, Yahweh, you know me fully. You see me, and you understand me. You have tested my feelings for you and found that I am fully devoted to you. Set them aside like sheep that are going to be killed; keep them ready for the time of their slaughter.

Jeremiah 4:22

“My people are foolish because they don’t know who I really am. They are reckless, senseless children. They think they are wise, but they are cunning in sinfulness and clueless in righteousness.”

Jeremiah 5:4

I thought, “These poor people are senseless, for they know neither God’s ways nor the justice of Yahweh.

Ezekiel 21:31

I will vent my fury on you, blow the fire of my rage against you, and hand you over to brutal men whose skill is destruction.

Mark 7:22

adultery, greed, wickedness, treachery, debauchery, jealousy, slander, arrogance, and recklessness.

John 8:21

One day Jesus said again, “I am about to leave you. You will want to find me, but you will still die in your sins. You won’t be able to come where I am going.”

Galatians 6:8

The harvest you reap reveals the seed that you planted. If you plant the corrupt seeds of self-life into this natural realm, you can expect a harvest of corruption. If you plant the good seeds of Spirit-life you will reap beautiful fruits that grow from the everlasting life of the Spirit.

Colossians 2:22

These are the doctrines of men and corrupt customs that are worthless to help you spiritually.

2 Peter 1:4

As a result of this, he has given you magnificent promises that are beyond all price, so that through the power of these tremendous promises we can experience partnership with the divine nature, by which you have escaped the corrupt desires that are of the world.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise others freedom, yet they themselves are slaves to corruption, for people are slaves to whatever overcomes them.

Jude 1:10

These people insult anything they don’t understand. They behave like irrational beasts by doing whatever they feel like doing. Because they live by their animal instincts, they corrupt themselves and bring about their own destruction.