10 and especially those who go after the flesh in defiling lust[a] and who despise authority.

Bold and arrogant, they do not tremble in awe as they[b] blaspheme majestic beings, 11 whereas angels, who are greater in strength and power, do not bring against them a demeaning judgment.[c] 12 But these persons, like irrational animals born only with natural instincts for capture and killing, blaspheming about things[d] they do not understand, in their destruction will also be destroyed,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:10 Literally “in lust of defilement,” translated here as an attributive genitive
  2. 2 Peter 2:10 Here “as” is supplied as a component of the participle (“blaspheme”) which is understood as temporal
  3. 2 Peter 2:11 Some manuscripts have “a demeaning judgment from the Lord”
  4. 2 Peter 2:12 Literally “with reference to which”