14 having eyes full of1 adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. aThey have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children.
15 They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of aBalaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
16 but he was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man’s voice restrained the madness of the prophet.
17 aThese are wells without water,1 clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness2 forever.
Deceptions of False Teachers
18 For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who1 have actually escaped from those who live in error.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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Cross-references and similar verses for 2 Peter 2:16:
forsaken.
1 Samuel 12:23
1 Kings 18:18
1 Kings 19:10
Proverbs 28:4
Ezekiel 9:10
Hosea 14:8
Acts 13:10
Balaam.
Numbers 22:5
son of Beor. who.
Numbers 22:18
Numbers 22:23
Numbers 22:28
Numbers 31:16
Deuteronomy 23:4
Deuteronomy 23:5
Judges 1:11
Micah 6:5
Revelation 2:14
wages.
Acts 1:18
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