12 But these persons, like irrational animals born only with natural instincts for capture and killing, blaspheming about things[a] they do not understand, in their destruction will also be destroyed, 13 being harmed as the wages of unrighteousness. Considering reveling in the daytime a pleasure, they are stains and blemishes, carousing in their deceitful pleasures when they[b] feast together with you, 14 having eyes full of desire for an adulteress and unceasing from sin, enticing unstable persons, and[c] having hearts trained for greediness. Accursed children!

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:12 Literally “with reference to which”
  2. 2 Peter 2:13 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“feast together”) which is understood as temporal
  3. 2 Peter 2:14 Here “and” is supplied in keeping with English style