2And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.


In Context

1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privately shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.

2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

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

4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved to judgment;

2 Peter 2:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:2And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:2Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:2And many shall follow their riotousnesses, through whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:2And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:2and many shall follow their dissolute ways, through whom the way of the truth shall be blasphemed.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:2And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:2And many will follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth will be evil spoken of.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:2Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:2and many shall follow out their destructive ways, because of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of,