The wicked one is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous one has a refuge in his death.
2 Peter 2:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised But these people, like irrational animals #– #creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed #– #slander what they do not understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But these [people]! Like unreasoning beasts, mere creatures of instinct, born [only] to be captured and destroyed, railing at things of which they are ignorant, they shall utterly perish in their [own] corruption [in their destroying they shall surely be destroyed], American Standard Version (1901) But these, as creatures without reason, born mere animals to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters whereof they are ignorant, shall in their destroying surely be destroyed, Common English Bible These false teachers are like irrational animals, mere creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They slander what they don’t understand and, like animals, they will be destroyed. Catholic Public Domain Version Yet truly, these others, like irrational beasts, naturally fall into traps and into ruin by blaspheming whatever they do not understand, and so they shall perish in their corruption, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But these men, as irrational beasts, naturally tending to the snare and to destruction, blaspheming those things which they know not, shall perish in their corruption, |
The wicked one is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous one has a refuge in his death.
For the shepherds are stupid: They don’t seek the Lord. Therefore they have not prospered, and their whole flock is scattered.
They are both stupid and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
As for you, Lord, you know me; you see me. You test whether my heart is with you. Drag the wicked away like sheep to slaughter and set them apart for the day of killing.
‘For my people are fools; they do not know me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing what is evil, but they do not know how to do what is good.’
Then I thought: They are just the poor; they have been foolish. For they don’t understand the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.
I will pour out my indignation on you; I will blow the fire of my fury on you. I will hand you over to brutal men, skilled at destruction.
adulteries, greed, evil actions, deceit, self-indulgence, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.
Then he said to them again, ‘I’m going away; you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I’m going, you cannot come.’
because the one who sows to his flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
All these regulations refer to what is destined to perish by being used up; they are human commands and doctrines.
By these he has given us very great and precious promises, so that through them you may share in the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world because of evil desire.
They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, since people are enslaved to whatever defeats them.
But these people blaspheme anything they do not understand. And what they do understand by instinct #– #like irrational animals #– #by these things they are destroyed.