2 Peter 2:13

They will be paid back in harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of fun is to commit their evil lusts in broad daylight. They are stains and blemishes on your community. They enjoy their deceptive pleasures even while they eat together with you.

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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

12These people are like mindless beasts, produced like farm animals to be captured and slaughtered. They condemn things they don't know anything about, and just like animals they will be destroyed.

14They're always on the lookout for adulterous relationships—they just can't stop sinning. They seduce the vulnerable; they have trained themselves in greed; they are offspring under a curse.

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Cross References

Isaiah 3:11But tragedy comes to the wicked, for what they did will be done to them.

Romans 13:13Let's behave properly, showing that we're people who are living in the light. We shouldn't spend our time going to wild parties and getting drunk, or having affairs and acting immorally, or getting into fights and being jealous.

Ephesians 5:27so that he could make the church his own, with no flaw or blemish or any kind of fault, but holy and blameless.

1 Thessalonians 5:7For it's during the night that people sleep; and it's at night that they get drunk.

Hebrews 2:2If the message the angels brought was trustworthy, and every sin and disobedient act brings its own consequence,

2 Peter 2:15They have abandoned the right path and have gone astray, following the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved to be paid for doing evil.

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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