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2 Peter 2:13

in 2 Peter 2

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.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

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;

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;

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This verse in 2 Peter 2

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Spots--in themselves. blemishes--disgraces: bringing blame (so the Greek) on the Church and on Christianity itself. sporting themselves--Greek, "luxuriating." with--Greek, "in." deceivings--or else passively, "deceits": luxuries gotten by deceit.

This site's exposition

natural brute beasts

on 2 Peter 2:12-13

These men are natural brute beasts, aloga zoa, animals without reason, made to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil of what they do not understand and set to perish in their own corruption, phthora, the same rot working from the inside that eventually finishes them. Verse 13 turns from beast to blemish, receiving the reward of unrighteousness for counting it pleasure to riot in the day time, open shamelessness rather than vice kept to the dark, spots they are and blemishes, spiloi kai momoi, on the church's own feasts, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you. The picture is of predators inside the fold rather than wolves circling outside it, which is the letter's whole alarm.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

They count it pleasure to riot in the day time - They glory in doing it in the face of the sun. They are spots in themselves, blemishes to any church. Sporting themselves with their own deceivings - Making a jest of those whom they deceive and even jesting while they are deceiving their own souls.

The words behind it

19 Greek words

Every Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Ephesians 4:22to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;11 worksRomans 13:13Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.9 worksRomans 2:8–9But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.8 works1 Thessalonians 5:7For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.8 works1 Corinthians 11:21For as you eat, each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk.7 worksJames 1:22Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.7 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Hebrews 2:2–3For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every transgression and disobedience received its just punishment,6 worksPhilippians 3:19Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.5 works1 John 1:8If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.5 worksEphesians 5:27and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.4 worksJude 1:12–16These 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.4 works1 Peter 4:4Because 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.4 worksIsaiah 57:4Whom are you mocking? At whom do you snarl and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deceit,4 works2 Peter 2:15They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.4 worksEzekiel 34:8‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because My flock lacks a shepherd and has become prey and food for every wild beast, and because My shepherds did not search for My flock but fed themselves instead,3 works2 Timothy 4:14Alexander the coppersmith did great harm to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds.2 works1 Corinthians 11:20–22Now then, when you come together, it is not the Lord’s Supper you eat.2 worksRevelation 18:6Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her own cup.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    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.

    it leads to

    • Galatians 5:21

      and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

    • Ephesians 5:18

      Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

  • Through

    Ephesians 5:27

    and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

    it leads to

    • Colossians 1:22

      But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—

    • Hebrews 9:14

      how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!

    • 1 Peter 1:19

      but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.

    • 2 Corinthians 11:2

      I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

  • Through

    Philippians 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.

    it leads to

    • Romans 16:18

      For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.

    • Romans 8:5–7

      Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Peter

The Judas Kiss — 'false teachers among you' — Gustave Doré (engraving, public domain)
The Judas Kiss — 'false teachers among you' — Gustave Doré (engraving, public domain)
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This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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