2 Peter 2:14 “Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfi…”

2 Peter 2:14

Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

World English Bible

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin, enticing unsettled souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children!

American Standard Version

having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of cursing;

Geneva Bible 1599

Hauing eyes full of adulterie, and that can not cease to sinne, beguiling vnstable soules: they haue heartes exercised with couetousnesse, they are the children of curse:

Darby Translation

having eyes full of adultery, and that cease not from sin, alluring unestablished souls; having a heart practised in covetousness, children of curse;

Young's Literal Translation

having eyes full of adultery, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having an heart exercised in covetousnesses, children of a curse,

Bible in Basic English

Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;

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Cross references

“eyes”

1 John 2:16 2 Samuel 11:2–4 Job 31:7 Job 31:9 Proverbs 6:25 Matthew 5:28

1 John 2:16 · BSB

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.

2 Samuel 11:2–4 · BSB

One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.

Job 31:7 · BSB

If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,

Job 31:9 · BSB

If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,

Proverbs 6:25 · BSB

Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.

Matthew 5:28 · BSB

But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

“that cannot”

Matthew 12:34 John 5:44 Jeremiah 13:23 Isaiah 1:16

Matthew 12:34 · BSB

You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.

John 5:44 · BSB

How can you believe if you accept glory from one another, yet do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

Jeremiah 13:23 · BSB

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good— you who are accustomed to doing evil.

Isaiah 1:16 · BSB

Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!

“beguiling”

2 Peter 2:18 2 Peter 3:16 Romans 16:18 Ephesians 4:14 1 Corinthians 11:19 Mark 13:22

2 Peter 2:18 · BSB

With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.

2 Peter 3:16 · BSB

He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their ow…

Romans 16:18 · BSB

For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.

Ephesians 4:14 · BSB

Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.

1 Corinthians 11:19 · BSB

And indeed, there must be differences among you to show which of you are approved.

Mark 13:22 · BSB

For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders to deceive even the elect, if that were possible.

“an heart”

2 Peter 2:3 Jude 1:11

2 Peter 2:3 · BSB

In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.

Jude 1:11 · BSB

Woe to them! They have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam; they have perished in Korah’s rebellion.

“cursed”

Ephesians 2:3 Isaiah 34:5 Isaiah 65:20 Matthew 25:41

Ephesians 2:3 · BSB

All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

Isaiah 34:5 · BSB

When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.

Isaiah 65:20 · BSB

No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.

Matthew 25:41 · BSB

Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

13The 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.

15They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.

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