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2 Peter 2:13-15
New Catholic Bible
2 Peter 2:13-15
New Catholic Bible
13 receiving the penalty[a] for doing wrong. They regard it as a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. While they share your table, they are ugly blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures.
14 They have eyes that are always on the trail of adultery, insatiable in their desire for sinful pursuits. They seduce unstable people, and their hearts are fixed on greed. Truly, they are an accursed brood.[b] 15 They have abandoned the straight path and have gone astray, following in the steps of Balaam, the son of Beor,[c] who loved to receive payment for wrongdoing.
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- 2 Peter 2:13 Receiving the penalty: some manuscripts have: “receiving a reward.” In their pleasures: some manuscripts have: “in their love feasts.”
- 2 Peter 2:14 Accursed brood: literally, “children of a curse.”
- 2 Peter 2:15 Balaam, the son of Beor: see Num 22–24. Even though God had forbidden Balaam to curse Israel, Balaam was intent on doing it because he wanted the money he had been promised by Balak. In the same way, the false teachers wanted to extract money from those who listened to them.
