2 Peter 2:13
11 Yet not even angels, though greater in strength and power, dare to bring such slanderous charges against them before the Lord.
12 These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed.
The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you.
14 Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.
15 They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you.
- KJV
- And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
- WEB
- receiving 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;
- ASV
- suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; [men] that count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceivings while they feast with you;
- DARBY
- receiving [the] reward of unrighteousness; accounting ephemeral indulgence pleasure; spots and blemishes, rioting in their own deceits, feasting with you;
- BLB
- suffering harm [as] the wage of unrighteousness; esteeming luxury in daytime [as] pleasure; spots and blemishes, luxuriating in their deceptions, feasting with you⁺;
- ÅB
- og få urettferdighetens lønn. De setter sin glede i dagens nytelse; disse styggedommene og skamplettene fråtser i sin svik når de spiser sammen med dere;
- OTB
- lide skade som lønn for å gjøre galt. De regner det som en glede å fråtse om dagen. De er flekker og lyter, fryder seg i sine bedrag mens de fester med dere,
- B1930
- og få urettferdighets lønn. De setter sin lyst i å bruke dagen til vellevnet; disse styggelser og skamflekker, de fråtser i sin svik når de holder gilde med eder;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Romans 13:13
Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
Read in contextRomans 2:8–9
But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.
Read in contextHebrews 2:2–3
For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every transgression and disobedience received its just punishment,
Read in contextPhilippians 3:19
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
Read in contextJude 1:12–16
These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.
Read in context1 Peter 4:4
Because of this, they consider it strange of you not to plunge with them into the same flood of reckless indiscretion, and they heap abuse on you.
Read in contextEphesians 5:27
and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.
Read in context1 Thessalonians 5:7–8
For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
Read in context