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2 Peter 2:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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an adulteress.

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eyes.

2 Sam. 11:2‑4• ²And it came to pass at evening time that David arose from off his couch, and walked upon the roof of the king's house; and from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful;
³and David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Urijah the Hittite?
⁴And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her; and she had purified herself from her uncleanness; and she returned to her house. (2 Sam. 11:2‑4)

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Job 31:7,9• ⁷If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;
⁹If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door, (Job 31:7,9)

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Prov. 6:25• ²⁵Lust not after her beauty in thy heart, neither let her take thee with her eyelids; (Prov. 6:25)

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Matt. 5:28• ²⁸But *I* say unto you, that every one who looks upon a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. (Matt. 5:28)

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1 John 2:16• ¹⁶because all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. (1 John 2:16)

adultery.

Gr. an adulteress.

that cannot.

Isa. 1:16• ¹⁶Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes;--cease to do evil, (Isa. 1:16)

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Jer. 13:23• ²³Can an Ethiopian change his skin, or a leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, who are accustomed to do evil. (Jer. 13:23)

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Matt. 12:34• ³⁴Offspring of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being wicked? For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. (Matt. 12:34)

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John 5:44• ⁴⁴How can ye believe, who receive glory one of another, and seek not the glory which comes from God alone? (John 5:44)

beguiling.

2 Peter 2:18• ¹⁸For while speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with the lusts of the flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error, (2 Peter 2:18)

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2 Peter 3:16• ¹⁶as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; among which some things are hard to be understood, which the untaught and ill-established wrest, as also the other scriptures, to their own destruction. (2 Peter 3:16)

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Mark 13:22• ²²For false Christs and false prophets will arise, and give signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. (Mark 13:22)

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Rom. 16:18• ¹⁸For such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly, and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting. (Rom. 16:18)

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1 Cor. 11:19• ¹⁹For there must also be sects among you, that the approved may become manifest among you. (1 Cor. 11:19)

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Eph. 4:14• ¹⁴in order that we may be no longer babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of *that* teaching which is in the sleight of men, in unprincipled cunning with a view to systematized error; (Eph. 4:14)

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Col. 2:18• ¹⁸Let no one fraudulently deprive you of your prize, doing his own will in humility and worship of angels, entering into things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh, (Col. 2:18)

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James 1:8• ⁸he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. (James 1:8)

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Rev. 12:9• ⁹And the great dragon was cast out, the ancient serpent, he who is called Devil and Satan, he who deceives the whole habitable world, he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. (Rev. 12:9)

an heart.

2 Peter 2:3• ³And through covetousness, with well-turned words, will they make merchandise of you: for whom judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction slumbers not. (2 Peter 2:3)

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Jude 11• ¹¹Woe to them! because they have gone in the way of Cain, and given themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. (Jude 11)

cursed.

Isa. 34:5• ⁵For my sword is bathed in the heavens; behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my ban, to judgment. (Isa. 34:5)

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Isa. 65:20• ²⁰There shall be no more thenceforth an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not completed his days; for the youth shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed. (Isa. 65:20)

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Matt. 25:41• ⁴¹Then shall he say also to those on the left, Go from me, cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: (Matt. 25:41)

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Eph. 2:3• ³among whom *we* also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest: (Eph. 2:3)

• "have a heart practiced in covetousness" in order to carry on the basest self-indulgence, where all are bound, denying impiety and worldly lusts, to live soberly, and justly and piously in the present age (“2 Peter 2:12-16” by W. Kelly)

• But these who act as if the cross of Christ opened the door for any abomination, are they not "children of curse?" It was sinning that grace may abound. (“2 Peter 2:12-16” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

JND Translation Notes

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Or "carnal desire and seeking to seduce," "practised in seduction" is the sense.

W. Kelly Translation

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having eyes full of an adulteress and without cessation from sin; setting baits for unstable souls; having a heart practiced in covetousness, children of curse;