2 Peter 2:13

Translations

Modern

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.

Traditional

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;

Literal

…suffering harm as the wage of unrighteousness; esteeming luxury in daytime as pleasure; spots and blemishes, luxuriating in their deceptions, feasting with you;

Latin

…percipientes mercedem injustitiæ, voluptatem existimantes diei delicias: coinquinationes, et maculæ deliciis affluentes, in conviviis suis luxuriantes vobiscum,

Original

Greek

English

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.

Notes

2 Peter 2:13

reveling in their deception as they feast with you: Compare Jude 1:12. Early Christians often shared fellowship meals to honor the Lord (see Acts 2:46; 6:1). The false teachers used these meals as opportunities to deceive true believers.

Some manuscripts say They revel in their fellowship meals as they feast with you. If correct, these false teachers were using the meals for self-indulgence (see 1 Corinthians 11:20–22).

2 Peter 2:10–16

This description of the false teachers focuses more on how they were living than on what they were teaching.

Theme notes and profiles

Simon Peter Apostasy Early Christian Heresies Holiness and Sexual Purity

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