2 Peter Verses

[sarahelizabeth]

2 PEter 1:18
We heard that voice speak to him from heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Peter 1:19
So we regard the words of the prophets as confirmed beyond all doubt. You’re doing well by paying attention to their words. Continue to pay attention as you would to a light that shines in a dark place as you wait for day to come and the morning star to rise in your hearts.

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Peter 1:20
First, you must understand this: No prophecy in Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation.

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Peter 1:21
No prophecy ever originated from humans. Instead, it was given by the Holy Spirit as humans spoke under God’s direction.

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Peter 2:1
False prophets were among God’s people in the past, as false teachers will be among you. They will secretly bring in their own destructive teachings. They will deny the Lord, who has bought them, and they will bring themselves swift destruction

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Peter 2:2
Many people will follow them in their sexual freedom and will cause others to dishonor the way of truth.

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Peter 2:3
In their greed they will use good-sounding arguments to exploit you. The verdict against them from long ago is still in force, and their destruction is not asleep

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Peter 2:4
God didn’t spare angels who sinned. He threw them into hell, where he has secured them with chains of darkness and is holding them for judgment

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Peter 2:5
God didn’t spare the ancient world either. He brought the flood on the world of ungodly people, but he protected Noah and seven other people. Noah was his messenger who told people about the kind of life that has God’s approval

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 PEter 2:6
God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and destroyed them by burning them to ashes. He made those cities an example to ungodly people of what is going to happen to them

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Peter 2:7
Yet, God rescued Lot, a man who had his approval. Lot was distressed by the lifestyle of people who had no principles and lived in sexual freedom.

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Peter 2:8
Although he was a man who had God’s approval, he lived among the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. Each day was like torture to him as he saw and heard the immoral things that people did.

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Peter 2:9
Since the Lord did all this, he knows how to rescue godly people when they are tested. He also knows how to hold immoral people for punishment on the day of judgment

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Peter 2:10
This is especially true of those who follow their corrupt nature along the path of impure desires and who despise the Lord’s authority.

 

[sarahelizabeth]

2 Peter 2:11
Angels, who have more strength and power than these teachers, don’t bring an insulting judgment against them from the Lord.

 

[Historicus]

2 Peter 2:12 (KJV)

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;

 

[Historicus]

2 Peter 2:13 (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;

 

[Historicus]

2 Peter 2:14 (KJV)

Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

 

[Historicus]

2 Peter 2:15 (KJV)

Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

 

[Historicus]

2 Peter 2:16 (KJV)

But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.