How long will you love simplicity, simple ones? And will scorners delight in their scorning? And will fools hate knowledge?
2 Peter 3:3 - Modern King James Version First, knowing this, that there will come in the last days scoffers walking according to their own lusts Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition To begin with, you must know and understand this, that scoffers (mockers) will come in the last days with scoffing, [people who] walk after their own fleshly desires American Standard Version (1901) knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts, Common English Bible Most important, know this: in the last days scoffers will come, jeering, living by their own cravings, Catholic Public Domain Version Know this first: that in the last days there will arrive deceitful mockers, walking according to their own desires, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Knowing this first, that in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts, |
How long will you love simplicity, simple ones? And will scorners delight in their scorning? And will fools hate knowledge?
A scorner seeks wisdom, and it is not found, but knowledge is easy to him who understands.
Therefore hear the Word of Jehovah, scornful men who rule this people in Jerusalem.
For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scorner is destroyed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off;
who say, Let Him hurry and hasten His work, so that we may see it; and let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, so that we may know!
In the day of our king, the rulers have sickened themselves with the heat of wine. He stretches out his hand with scorners.
He who rejects Me and does not receive My Words has one who judges him; the Word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the Word of God, but by the revelation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
Know this also, that in the last days grievous times will be at hand.
has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds,
knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture came into being of its own private interpretation.
and especially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise dominion. They are darers, self-pleasing; not trembling at glories, speaking evil.
Little children, it is the last time. And just as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have risen up, from which we know that it is the last hour.
These are murmurers, complainers, leading lives according to their lusts. And their mouth speaks proud things, admiring faces for the sake of gain.
because they told you that at the last time there will be mockers according to their lusts, leading ungodly lives.