With many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this crooked generation.”
2 Peter 2:18 - The Text-Critical English New Testament For they speak bombastic words of nonsense, and with sensual desires of the flesh they entice people who have truly escaped from others who live in error. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For uttering loud boasts of folly, they beguile and lure with lustful desires of the flesh those who are barely escaping from them who are wrongdoers. American Standard Version (1901) For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error; Common English Bible With empty, self-important speech, they use sinful cravings and unrestrained immorality to ensnare people who have only just escaped life with those who have wandered from the truth. Catholic Public Domain Version For, speaking with the arrogance of vanity, they lure, by the desires of fleshly pleasures, those who are fleeing to some extent, who are being turned from error, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness, those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error: |
With many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this crooked generation.”
Now a man named Simon had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, declaring himself to be someone great.
Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelries and drinking bouts, not in illicit affairs and sensual indulgences, not in strife and jealousy.
Therefore, I solemnly declare in the Lord that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.
He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god and object of worship, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
You have lived on the earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
Through these he has given us his precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desires.
They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unstable souls. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.
Many will follow their sensual ways, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned.
For if after they have escaped from the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these defilements and overcome, the last state is worse for them than the first.
and if he rescued righteous Lot, who was distressed by the sensual conduct of the lawless
Therefore, beloved, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you will not be led astray by the error of these lawless men and fall from your own secure position.
They are wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shameful deeds; wayward stars, for whom the thick gloom of darkness has been reserved forever.
Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon.