2 Peter 2:12 - New International Version (Anglicised)

¹² But these people blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like unreasoning animals, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like animals they too will perish.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² 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

¹² 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)

¹² 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

¹² 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

¹² 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

¹² 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,

2 Peter 2:12 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 49:10

For all can see that the wise die, that the foolish and the senseless also perish, leaving their wealth to others.

Psalm 92:6

Senseless people do not know, fools do not understand,

Psalm 94:8

Take notice, you senseless ones among the people; you fools, when will you become wise?

Proverbs 14:32

When calamity comes, the wicked are brought down, but even in death the righteous seek refuge in God.

Jeremiah 10:21

The shepherds are senseless and do not enquire of the Lord; so they do not prosper and all their flock is scattered.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are all senseless and foolish; they are taught by worthless wooden idols.

Jeremiah 12:3

Yet you know me, Lord; you see me and test my thoughts about you. Drag them off like sheep to be butchered! Set them apart for the day of slaughter!

Jeremiah 4:22

‘My people are fools; they do not know me. They are senseless children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil; they know not how to do good.’

Jeremiah 5:4

I thought, ‘These are only the poor; they are foolish, for they do not know the way of the Lord, the requirements of their God.

Ezekiel 21:31

I will pour out my wrath on you and breathe out my fiery anger against you; I will deliver you into the hands of brutal men, men skilled in destruction.

Mark 7:22

adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.

John 8:21

Once more Jesus said to them, ‘I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come.’

Galatians 6:8

Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

Colossians 2:22

These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings.

2 Peter 1:4

Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity – for ‘people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.’

Jude 1:10

Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct – as irrational animals do – will destroy them.