Devine Scripture

2 Peter 2:16

2 Peter chapter 2 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

but he was rebuked for his own transgression: a dumb ass spake with man’s voice and stayed the madness of the prophet.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

but he was rebuked for his own transgression: a dumb ass spake with man’s voice and stayed the madness of the prophet.

Context

v.15forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing;

v.16This passage

v.17These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Acts 26:11

    And punishing them oftentimes in all the synagogues, I strove to make them blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto foreign cities.

  • Ecclesiastes 9:3

    This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

  • Ecclesiastes 7:25

    I turned about, and my heart was set to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things, and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.

  • Hosea 9:7

    The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the man that hath the spirit is mad, for the abundance of thine iniquity, and because the enmity is great.

  • Luke 16:11

    If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

  • Numbers 22:21

    And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.