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2 Peter 2:14-16
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14 having eyes full of desire for an adulteress and unceasing from sin, enticing unstable persons, and[a] having hearts trained for greediness. Accursed children! 15 By[b] leaving the straight path, they have gone astray, because they[c] followed the way of Balaam the son of Bosor,[d] who loved the wages of unrighteousness, 16 but received a rebuke for his own lawlessness: a speechless donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet’s madness[e].

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:14 Here “and” is supplied in keeping with English style
  2. 2 Peter 2:15 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“leaving”) which is understood as means
  3. 2 Peter 2:15 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“followed”) which is understood as causal
  4. 2 Peter 2:15 Although some English versions use “Beor” here, this is due to harmonization with the Old Testament; the vast majority of Greek manuscripts read “Bosor” here
  5. 2 Peter 2:16 Literally “the of the prophet madness”
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