Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
having eyes full of [desire for] an adulteress and unceasing from sin, enticing unstable persons, [and] having hearts trained for greediness. Accursed children!
New American Standard Bible
having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin,
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:
Holman Bible
They have eyes full of adultery
International Standard Version
With eyes full of adultery, they cannot get enough of sin. They seduce unsteady souls and have had their hearts expertly trained in greed. They are doomed to a curse.
A Conservative Version
having eyes full of adultery, and unceasing sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, children of a curse,
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;
Amplified
They have eyes full of adultery, constantly looking for sin, enticing and luring away unstable souls. Having hearts trained in greed, [they are] children of a curse.
An Understandable Version
Their eyes are filled with sexual lust, and they are never satisfied when it comes to sinning. They entice unstable people and have hearts trained to be greedy [i.e., they continually desire the possessions of others]. [In this condition] they are under God's curse.
Anderson New Testament
having eyes that are full of the adulteress, and that can not cease from sin, deceiving unstable souls, having a heart exercised in covetousness, accursed children,
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;
Common New Testament
They have eyes full of adultery, that never cease from sin; they entice unstable souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!
Daniel Mace New Testament
their eyes are inflam'd with adultery, and unextinguishable vice: they insnare the souls of the inconstant. their minds are practis'd in the arts of avarice: an execrable race, who have deserted the right way,
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;
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
having eyes full of the adulteress, incessantly sinning, alluring unstable souls; having a heart exercised with insatiable desires; an accursed progeny:
Godbey New Testament
having eyes full of an adulteress, and unable to cease from sin; beguiling unestablished souls: having a heart which has been made fat with covetousness; children of the curse:
Goodspeed New Testament
They have eyes for nobody but adulterous women??yes insatiable in sin. They lure unsteadfast souls. Their hearts are trained in greed. They are accursed!
John Wesley New Testament
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cease not from sin; beguiling unstable souls, having hearts exercised with covetousness, accursed children:
Julia Smith Translation
Having eyes full of an adulteress, not ceasing from sin; decoying unstable souls: having a heart exercised with covetousness; children of a curse:
King James 2000
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: a heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
Modern King James verseion
having eyes full of adultery and never ceasing from sin, alluring unstable souls, having a heart exercised with covetousness. They are cursed children
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease to sin, beguiling unstable souls. Hearts they have exercised with covetousness. They are cursed children,
Montgomery New Testament
They have eyes full of harlots, eyes that cannot stop sinning. They entice unsteady souls. Their heart is trained in greed. They are an accursed generation.
NET Bible
Their eyes, full of adultery, never stop sinning; they entice unstable people. They have trained their hearts for greed, these cursed children!
New Heart English Bible
having eyes full of adultery, and who cannot cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;
Noyes New Testament
having eyes full of an adulteress, and that cannot cease from sin, alluring unstable souls, having a heart exercised in covetousness, children of a curse,
Sawyer New Testament
having eyes full of an adulteress, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart exercised in covetousness, cursed children,
The Emphasized Bible
Having, eyes, full of an adulteress, and that cannot rest from sin, enticing unstable souls, having, a heart trained in greed, - children of a curse, -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
having eyes full of adultery, and insatiable of sin; ensnaring souls of no stability; having a heart practised in all the wiles of covetousness; children for a curse:
Twentieth Century New Testament
They have eyes only for adulteresses, eyes never tired of sin; they entice weak souls; their minds are trained to covet; they live under a curse.
Webster
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: they have a heart exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
Weymouth New Testament
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 God's curse!
Williams New Testament
They have eyes full of adultery and insatiable by sin. They practice enticing unsteady souls. They have trained their hearts in greed. They are doomed to a curse!
World English Bible
having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;
Worrell New Testament
having eyes full of lustfulness, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstable souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of a curse;
Worsley New Testament
having eyes full of adultery, and which cannot be restrained from sin: ensnaring unstable souls, and having a heart practised in rapine; cursed people:
Youngs 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,
Themes
Adultery » General references to
Chastity » The wicked are devoid of
Corruption » Who are the servants of corruption
Covetousness » Engrosses the heart
Evil » Heart evil, characteristics of » Source of unbelief and covetousness
Fall of man » Man in consequence of » Constant in evil
Folly » Who returns to their folly
Forsaking » Who has forsaken the right way
Heart » Evil, characteristics of » Source of unbelief and covetousness
Heart » Sinful » Source of unbelief and covetousness
Heart » The unregenerate » Is covetous
character of the unrenewed Heart » Covetous
Home » Foes of the home » Adultery
Names » Of the wicked » Cursed children
Servants » Who are the servants of corruption
Sin » The wicked » Cannot cease from
Sinful » Heart » Source of unbelief and covetousness
Speech/communication » Who speaks vanity
Straying » Who strays from the right path
Topics
Interlinear
Pleonexia
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Peter 2:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Rise And Fall Of The False Teachers
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] feast together with you, 14 having eyes full of [desire for] an adulteress and unceasing from sin, enticing unstable persons, [and] having hearts trained for greediness. Accursed children! 15 [By] leaving the straight path, they have gone astray, [because they] followed the way of Balaam the [son of] Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,
Cross References
Ephesians 2:3
among whom also we all formerly lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the mind, and we were children of wrath by nature, as also the rest of [them] were.
2 Peter 2:3
And in greediness they will exploit you with false words, whose condemnation [from] long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
2 Peter 2:18
{For by speaking high-sounding but empty words}, they entice with desires of the flesh [and] with licentiousness those who are scarcely escaping from those who live in error,
James 1:8
[he is] a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
2 Peter 3:16
as [he does] also in all his letters, speaking in them about these [things], in which there are some [things] hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable distort to their own destruction, as [they] also [do] the rest of the scriptures.
2 Samuel 11:2-4
It happened {late one afternoon} [that] David got up from his bed and walked about on the roof of the king's house, and he saw a woman bathing on her roof. Now the woman {was very beautiful}.
Job 31:7
If my steps have turned aside from the way, and my heart has walked after my eyes, and my hand has clung to a spot,
Job 31:9
"If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and at my neighbor's doorway I have lain in wait,
Proverbs 6:25
Do not desire her beauty in your heart; may she not capture you with her eyelashes.
Isaiah 1:16
Wash! Make yourselves clean! Remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes! Cease to do evil!
Isaiah 34:5
When my sword is drenched in the heavens, look! It will descend upon Edom, and upon the people of my ban, for judgment.
Isaiah 65:20
There will no longer be a nursing infant {who lives only a few} days, or an old man who does not fill his days, for the boy will die {a hundred years old}, and the one who {fails to reach} {a hundred years} will be {considered} accursed.
Jeremiah 13:23
Can a Cushite change his skin, or a leopard his spots? [Then] you also will be able to do good, [who] are accustomed to doing evil.
Matthew 5:28
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Matthew 12:34
Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say good things [when you] are evil? For from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Matthew 25:41
Then he will also say to those on [his] left, 'Depart from me, [you] accursed ones, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels!
Mark 13:22
For false messiahs and false prophets will appear, and will produce signs and wonders in order to mislead, if possible, the elect.
John 5:44
How are you able to believe, [if you] accept glory from one another, and do not seek the glory [which is] from the only God?
Romans 16:18
For such people do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own stomach, and by smooth speech and flattery they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.
1 Corinthians 11:19
For indeed it is necessary that there be factions among you, in order that those who are approved may become evident among you.
Ephesians 4:14
so that we may no longer be infants, tossed about by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of people, by craftiness with reference to the scheming of deceit.
Colossians 2:18
Let no one condemn you, taking pleasure in humility and the worship of angels, going into detail [about] [the things] which he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind,
1 John 2:16
because everything [that is] in the world--the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance of material possessions--is not from the Father, but is from the world.
Jude 1:11
Woe to them! For they have traveled in the way of Cain, and have given themselves up to the error of Balaam for gain, and have perished in the rebellion of Korah.
Revelation 12:9
And the great dragon was thrown down, the ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.