For he sees wise men die; likewise the fool and the animal-like ones perish, and leave their wealth to others.
2 Peter 2:12 - Modern King James Version But these, as unreasoning natural brute animals having been born for capture and corruption, speak evil of the things that they do not understand. And they will utterly perish in their own corruption, 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, |
For he sees wise men die; likewise the fool and the animal-like ones perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Understand, you beastly ones among the people; and fools, when will you be wise?
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness, but the righteous has hope in his death.
For the pastors have become stupid, and have not sought Jehovah, therefore they shall not be blessed, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
But they are all at once foolish and animal-like; the tree is an example of vanities.
But You, O Jehovah, know me. You have seen me and tried my heart toward You. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and devote them for the day of slaughter.
For My people are foolish; they have not known Me; they are stupid sons, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
So I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they do not know the way of Jehovah, nor the judgment of their God.
And I will pour out My disgust on you; with the fire of My wrath I will blow against you, and give you into the hand of burning men, able to destroy.
thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
Then Jesus said again to them, I go away, and you shall seek Me and shall die in your sins. Where I go, you cannot come.
For he sowing to his flesh will reap corruption from the flesh. But he sowing to the Spirit will reap life everlasting from the Spirit.
which things are all for corruption in the using, according to the commands and doctrines of men?
through which He has given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, so that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
promising them liberty, they themselves are the slaves of corruption. For by whom anyone has been overcome, even to this one he has been enslaved.
But what things they do not know, they speak evil of. And what things they understand naturally, like the animals without reason, they are corrupted by these.