If my step has turned from the way, my heart has followed my eyes, or impurity has stained my hands,
2 Peter 2:14 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised They have eyes full of adultery that never stop looking for sin. They seduce unstable people and have hearts trained in greed. Children under a curse! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They have eyes full of harlotry, insatiable for sin. They beguile and bait and lure away unstable souls. Their hearts are trained in covetousness (lust, greed), [they are] children of a curse [exposed to cursing]! American Standard Version (1901) having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of cursing; Common English Bible They are always looking for someone with whom to commit adultery. They are always on the lookout for opportunities to sin. They ensnare people whose faith is weak. They have hearts trained in greed. They are under God’s curse. Catholic Public Domain Version having eyes full of adultery and of incessant offenses, luring unstable souls, having a heart well-trained in avarice, sons of curses! Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Having eyes full of adultery and of sin that ceaseth not: alluring unstable souls, having their heart exercised with covetousness, children of malediction: |
If my step has turned from the way, my heart has followed my eyes, or impurity has stained my hands,
If my heart has gone astray over a woman or I have lurked at my neighbour’s door,
She doesn’t consider the path of life; she doesn’t know that her ways are unstable.
Don’t lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyelashes.
‘Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from my sight. Stop doing evil.
When my sword has drunk its fill , in the heavens, it will then come down on Edom and on the people I have set apart for destruction.
In her, a nursing infant will no longer live only a few days, or an old man not live out his days. Indeed, the one who dies at a hundred years old will be mourned as a young man, and the one who misses a hundred years will be considered cursed.
Can the Cushite change his skin, or a leopard his spots? If so, you might be able to do what is good, you who are instructed in evil.
Say, “This is what the Lord God says: Woe to the women who sew magic bands on the wrist of every hand and who make veils for the heads of people of every size in order to ensnare lives. Will you ensnare the lives of my people but preserve your own?
Brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.
‘Then he will also say to those on the left, “Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels!
But I tell you, everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
For false messiahs and false prophets will arise and will perform signs and wonders to lead astray, if possible, the elect.
How can you believe, since you accept glory from one another but don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?
because such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites. , They deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting with smooth talk and flattering words.
Indeed, it is necessary that there be factions among you, so that those who are approved may be recognised among you.
We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also.
Then we will no longer be little children, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit.
Let no one condemn you by delighting in ascetic practices and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm. Such a person is inflated by empty notions of his unspiritual mind.
For by uttering boastful, empty words, they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped from those who live in error.
They will exploit you in their greed with made-up stories. Their condemnation, pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.
He speaks about these things in all his letters. There are some things hard to understand in them. The untaught and unstable will twist them to their own destruction, as they also do with the rest of the Scriptures.
For everything in the world #– #the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride in one’s possessions #– #is not from the Father, but is from the world.
Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, have plunged into Balaam’s error for profit, and have perished in Korah’s rebellion.
So the great dragon was thrown out #– #the ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the one who deceives the whole world. He was thrown to earth, and his angels with him.