These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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2 Peter 2
Brit Hadashah 21 verses
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But there were also false prophets among the people, as there will be teachers of falsehood among you also, who will cunningly introduce fatal divisions, disowning even the Sovereign Lord who has redeemed them, and bringing on themselves swift destruction.
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2 Peter 2:3 Jude 1:4 Matthew 7:15 Galatians 2:4 Deuteronomy 13:1-3 1 Corinthians 11:19 1 Corinthians 6:20 Matthew 24:11 2 Timothy 4:3 Revelation 2:13 Colossians 2:8 Revelation 2:9 Matthew 10:33 Revelation 3:8 1 John 2:18-19 1 John 2:26 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12 2 Timothy 2:12-13 1 Peter 1:8 1 Timothy 4:1-3 Jude 1:18 Colossians 2:18 Galatians 5:20 Revelation 5:9 Hebrews 10:29 Ephesians 1:7 Revelation 13:14 Ephesians 4:14 1 John 4:1 Titus 3:10 Titus 1:11 Galatians 4:17 Philippians 3:19 2 Timothy 3:1-9 Jeremiah 23:16-17 Galatians 3:13 Isaiah 56:10-11 Jeremiah 29:8-9 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 Jeremiah 27:14-15 Acts 20:28-30 Luke 21:8 Deuteronomy 32:6 Malachi 3:5 Isaiah 9:15 1 Kings 18:19-22 Ezekiel 13:3-18 Hosea 9:8 Jeremiah 37:19 Luke 12:9 Acts 3:13-14 Romans 16:18 Matthew 24:5 Micah 3:5 Zechariah 13:3-4 Nehemiah 6:12-14 Micah 3:11 Lamentations 2:14 Jeremiah 29:31-32 Matthew 24:24 Jeremiah 14:13-15 Jeremiah 28:15-17 1 Corinthians 7:23 Mark 13:22 Micah 2:11 Jeremiah 23:25-32 Luke 6:26 1 Kings 22:6 -
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And in their immoral ways they will have many eager disciples, through whom religion will be brought into disrepute.
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Romans 2:24 Acts 16:17 Jude 1:10 Revelation 13:14 Jude 1:15 2 Peter 2:15 Acts 24:14 Titus 2:5 Matthew 24:24 Revelation 12:9 Acts 14:2 Matthew 22:16 Mark 13:22 1 Peter 2:12 Titus 2:8 Matthew 7:14 2 Peter 2:21 1 Timothy 5:14 1 John 2:18-19 Isaiah 35:8 Jeremiah 6:16 Mark 12:14 Matthew 24:10-13 Acts 13:10 John 14:6 Acts 18:26 Acts 19:9 Psalm 18:21 Revelation 13:8 2 Peter 2:12 -
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Thirsting for riches, they will trade on you with their canting talk. From of old their judgement has been working itself out, and their destruction has not been slumbering.
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2 Corinthians 2:17 1 Thessalonians 2:5 Deuteronomy 32:35 Romans 16:18 1 Timothy 6:5 2 Corinthians 12:17-18 2 Peter 1:16 Titus 1:11 1 Peter 2:8 2 Peter 2:1 2 Peter 2:9 Isaiah 5:19 Jude 1:15 1 Thessalonians 5:3 Habakkuk 3:3 Psalm 18:44 Malachi 1:10 Psalm 81:15 Luke 22:47 Isaiah 30:13-14 1 Peter 5:2 Luke 20:20 Psalm 66:3 Jeremiah 6:13 Ezekiel 13:19 1 Timothy 3:8 Jude 1:11 Isaiah 56:11 Isaiah 60:22 Jeremiah 8:10 Jude 1:7 Revelation 18:11-13 Micah 3:11 Luke 18:8 2 Peter 2:14-15 Titus 1:7 1 Timothy 3:3 John 2:16 Jude 1:4 Deuteronomy 24:17 - 4 For did not spare angels when they had sinned, but hurling them down to Tartarus consigned them to caves of darkness, keeping them in readiness for judgement.
- 5 And He did not spare the ancient world, although He preserved , a herald of , with seven others, when He brought a deluge on the world of the unElohimly.
- 6 He reduced to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and condemned them to overthrow, making them an example to people who might in future be living Elohimless lives.
- 7 But when righteous Lot was sore distressed by the gross misconduct of immoral men He rescued him.
- 9 Since all this is so, the Lord knows how to rescue Elohimly men from temptation, and on the other hand how to keep the unrighteous under punishment in readiness for the Day of Judgement,
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and especially those who are abandoned to sensuality—craving, as they do, for polluted things, and scorning control. Fool-hardy and self-willed, they do not tremble when speaking evil of glorious beings;
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Exodus 22:28 Jude 1:16 Jude 1:10 Romans 1:24-27 Jude 1:18 Luke 19:14 Romans 8:12-13 Ephesians 5:5 Acts 23:5 Jude 1:6-8 Ecclesiastes 10:20 Colossians 3:5 Hebrews 13:4 2 Peter 3:3 Titus 1:7 Jeremiah 2:31 Ecclesiastes 10:6-7 1 Peter 2:13-14 1 Samuel 10:27 1 Thessalonians 4:7 Romans 8:4-5 Psalm 12:4 2 Samuel 20:1 Romans 8:1 2 Corinthians 10:3 Deuteronomy 17:12-13 1 Corinthians 6:9 1 Kings 12:16 Numbers 15:30 Numbers 16:12-15 Deuteronomy 21:20-21 Romans 13:1-5 Psalm 2:1-5 Jude 1:4 Ephesians 4:19 Genesis 49:6 -
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while angels, though greater than they in might and power, do not bring any insulting accusation against such in the presence of the Lord.
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- 12 But these men, like brute beasts, created (with their natural instincts)
- 13 being doomed to receive a requital for their guilt. They reckon it pleasure to feast daintily in broad daylight. They are spots and blemishes, while feeding luxuriously at their -feasts, and banqueting with you.
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Their very eyes are full of adultery—being eyes which never cease from sin. These men set traps to catch unstedfast souls, their own hearts being well trained in greed. They are fore-doomed to Elohim’s !
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Ephesians 2:3 2 Peter 2:3 2 Peter 2:18 James 1:8 1 John 2:16 2 Peter 3:16 Ephesians 4:14 Mark 13:22 John 5:44 Isaiah 1:16 Proverbs 6:25 Jude 1:11 Matthew 12:34 Revelation 12:9 Isaiah 65:20 Matthew 25:41 Jeremiah 13:23 Job 31:9 Matthew 5:28 Romans 16:18 Job 31:7 1 Corinthians 11:19 2 Samuel 11:2-4 Isaiah 34:5 Colossians 2:18 - 15 Forsaking the straight road, they have gone astray, having eagerly followed in the steps of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was bent on securing the wages of unrighteousness.
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But he was rebuked for his transgression: a dumb ass spoke with a human voice and checked the madness of the Prophet.
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These people are wells without water, mists driven along by a storm, men for whom the dense darkness has been reserved.
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- 18 For, while they pour out their frivolous and arrogant talk, they use earthly cravings—every kind of immorality—as a bait to entrap men who are just escaping from the influence of those who live in error.
- 19 And they promise them freedom, although they are themselves the slaves of what is corrupt. For a man is the slave of any one by whom he has been worsted in fight.
- 20 For if, after escaping from the pollutions of the world through a full knowledge of our Lord and Saviour the , people are once more entangled in these pollutions and are overcome, their last state has become worse than their first.
- 21 For it would have been better for them not to have fully known the way of , than, after knowing it, to turn back from the commandments in which they were instructed.
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Their case is that described in the true proverb, “A dog returns to what he has vomited,” and also in the other proverb, “The sow has washed itself and now goes back to roll in its filth.”
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