2 Peter 2:3,9 - Compare All Versions

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In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.

And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment

In their greed they will make up clever lies to get hold of your money. But God condemned them long ago, and their destruction will not be delayed.

So you see, the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials, even while keeping the wicked under punishment until the day of final judgment.

They will exploit  you in their greed  with made-up stories. Their condemnation,  pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.

then the Lord knows how to rescue  the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment

And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished

By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.

then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment

They give the way of truth a bad name. They’re only out for themselves. They’ll say anything, anything, that sounds good to exploit you. They won’t, of course, get by with it. They’ll come to a bad end, for God has never just stood by and let that kind of thing go on.

So God knows how to rescue the godly from evil trials. And he knows how to hold the feet of the wicked to the fire until Judgment Day.

and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from a trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment

And in their greed they will exploit you with false arguments and twisted doctrine. Their sentence [of condemnation which God has decreed] from a time long ago is not idle [but is still in force], and their destruction and deepening misery is not asleep [but is on its way].

then [in light of the fact that all this is true, be sure that] the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial, and how to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.

– if so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from their trials, and to reserve the unrighteous for punishment at the day of judgment