2 Peter 2:13

receiving the wages of unrighteousness. Counting indulgence in the daytime as pleasure, they are stains and blemishes, openly indulging in their deceptions as they feast with you.

Text-Critical English NT

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 blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like irrational beasts, creatures of instinct born for capture and destruction, and in the destruction of those beasts they will be destroyed,

14They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unstable souls. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.

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Cross References

Romans 13:13Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelries and drinking bouts, not in illicit affairs and sensual indulgences, not in strife and jealousy.

Ephesians 5:27so that he might present her to himself as a glorious church, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but holy and unblemished.

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

Hebrews 2:2For if the message spoken through angels was valid and every transgression and disobedience received a just retribution,

2 Peter 2:15They have abandoned the straight path and gone astray, following the way of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved the wages 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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