2 Peter 2:13

getting back a wage of unrighteousness. Men who consider soft living in the daytime to be pleasure, spots and blemishes reveling in their deceitfulness, feasting together with you,

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the daytime. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

In Context

12But these men, like irrational beasts of nature, having been born for capture and destruction, speaking evil at which things they do not understand, will be destroyed in their corruption,

14having eyes full of adultery, and unceasing sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, children of a curse,

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Cross References

Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked! [It is] ill [with him], for what his hands have done shall be done to him.

Romans 13:13Let us walk decently as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in beddings and wantonness, not in strife and envy.

Ephesians 5:27so that he might present it to himself, the glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and unblemished.

1 Thessalonians 5:7For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who are intoxicated get drunk at night.

Hebrews 2:2For if the word spoken through heavenly agents became certain, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward,

2 Peter 2:15having forsaked a straight path, they were led astray, men who followed the way of Balaam, son of Beor, who loved the wage of unrighteousness.

Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 2:11-22

False Teachers. ( a. d. 67.) 10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. 11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. 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; 13 And shall receive… Read the whole commentary →

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