2 Peter 2

1But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.Cross-references: Deut 13:1 · Deut 32:6 · 1Ki 18:19 · 1Ki 22:6 · Neh 6:12 · Isa 9:15 · +62 more

2Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.Cross-references: Ps 18:21 · Isa 35:8 · Jer 6:16 · Matt 7:14 · Matt 22:16 · Matt 24:10 · +24 more

3In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.Cross-references: Deut 24:17 · Deut 32:35 · Ps 18:44 · Ps 66:3 · Ps 81:15 · Isa 5:19 · +34 more

4For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgment;Cross-references: Deut 29:20 · Job 4:18 · Job 21:30 · Ps 78:50 · Isa 14:12 · Ezek 5:11 · +19 more

5and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly,Cross-references: Gen 6:1 · Gen 7:1 · Job 22:15 · Matt 24:37 · Luke 17:26 · Heb 11:7 · +3 more

6and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live in an ungodly way,Cross-references: Gen 19:24 · Gen 19:28 · Num 26:10 · Deut 29:23 · Isa 13:19 · Jer 50:40 · +8 more

7and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wickedCross-references: Gen 13:13 · Gen 19:7 · Gen 19:16 · Gen 19:22 · Gen 19:29 · Ps 120:5 · +4 more

8(for that righteous man dwelling among them was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds),Cross-references: Ps 119:136 · Ps 119:139 · Ps 119:158 · Prov 25:26 · Prov 28:12 · Ezek 9:4 · +4 more

9then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,Cross-references: Job 5:19 · Job 21:30 · Ps 4:3 · Ps 12:1 · Ps 32:6 · Ps 34:15 · +10 more

10but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries,Cross-references: Gen 49:6 · Ex 22:28 · Num 15:30 · Num 16:12 · Deut 17:12 · Deut 21:20 · +30 more

11whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don’t bring a slanderous judgment against them before the Lord.Cross-references: Ps 103:20 · Ps 104:4 · Dan 6:22 · 2Thess 1:7 · Jude 1:9

12But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,Cross-references: Ps 49:10 · Ps 92:6 · Ps 94:8 · Prov 14:32 · Jer 4:22 · Jer 5:4 · +9 more

13receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;Cross-references: Song 4:7 · Isa 3:11 · Rom 2:8 · Rom 13:13 · 1Cor 11:20 · Eph 5:27 · +8 more

14having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin, enticing unsettled souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children!Cross-references: 2Sam 11:2 · Job 31:7 · Job 31:9 · Prov 6:25 · Isa 1:16 · Isa 34:5 · +19 more

15Forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;Cross-references: Num 22:5 · Num 22:18 · Num 22:23 · Num 22:28 · Num 31:16 · Deut 23:4 · +13 more

16but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A speechless donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.Cross-references: Num 22:21 · Eccl 7:25 · Eccl 9:3 · Hos 9:7 · Luke 16:11 · Acts 26:11 · +1 more

17These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.Cross-references: Job 6:14 · Jer 14:3 · Hos 6:4 · Matt 8:12 · Matt 22:13 · Matt 25:30 · +4 more

18For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;Cross-references: Ps 52:1 · Ps 73:8 · Dan 4:30 · Dan 11:36 · Acts 2:40 · Acts 8:9 · +9 more

19promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.Cross-references: Isa 28:1 · Jer 23:9 · John 8:34 · Rom 6:12 · Rom 6:16 · Gal 5:1 · +5 more

20For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.Cross-references: Num 24:20 · Deut 32:29 · Matt 12:43 · Luke 11:24 · Phil 3:19 · Heb 6:4 · +4 more

21For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.Cross-references: Ps 36:3 · Ps 125:5 · Prov 12:28 · Prov 16:31 · Ezek 3:20 · Ezek 18:24 · +11 more

22But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”Cross-references: Prov 26:11