And with many other words bare he witness, and exhorted them saying: Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
2 Peter 2:18 - William Tyndale New Testament For when they have spoken the swelling words of vanity, they beguile with wantonness thorow the lusts of the flesh them that were clean escaped: but now are wrapped in errors. 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: |
And with many other words bare he witness, and exhorted them saying: Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
And there was a certain man called Simon, which beforetime in the same city, used witchcraft and bewitched the people, saying that he was a man that could do great things.
Let us walk honestly as it were in the daylight: not in eating and drinking: neither in chambering and wantonness: neither in strife and envying:
¶ This I say herefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other gentiles walk, in vanities of their mind,
which is an adversary, and is exalted above all that is called God, or that is worshipped: so that he shall sit in the temple of god, and shew himself as god.
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and in wantonness. Ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
by the means whereof, are given unto us excellent and most great promises, that by the help of them ye should be part takers of the godly nature, in that ye fly the corruption of worldly lust.
having eyes full of advoutry, and that cannot cease to sin, beguiling unstable souls. Hearts they have exercised with covetousness. They are cursed children,
and many shall follow their damnable ways, by which the way of truth shall be evil spoken of,
For if they, after they have escaped from the filthiness of the world thorow the knowledge of the Lord, and of the saviour Iesus Christ, they are yet tangled again therein and overcome: then is the latter end worse with them than the beginning.
And just Lot vexed with the uncleanly conversation of the wicked, delivered he.
Ye therefore beloved seeing ye are warned, Beware lest ye be also plucked away with the error of the wicked, and own steadfastness:
They are raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame. They are wandering stars, to whom is reserved the mist of darkness for ever.
¶ And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as did the dragon.