2Pet 2:20 Cross References

2 Peter 2:20

20: And when people escape from the wicked ways of the world by learning about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and then get tangled up with sin and become its slave again, they are worse off than before.

Hebrews 10:26

  1. Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received a full knowledge of the truth, there is no other sacrifice that will cover these sins.
  2. There will be nothing to look forward to but the terrible expectation of God's judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies.

Hebrews 6:4

  1. For it is impossible to restore to repentance those who were once enlightened--those who have experienced the good things of heaven and shared in the Holy Spirit,
  2. who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the power of the age to come--
  3. and who then turn away from God. It is impossible to bring such people to repentance again because they are nailing the Son of God to the cross again by rejecting him, holding him up to public shame.
  4. When the ground soaks up the rain that falls on it and bears a good crop for the farmer, it has the blessing of God.
  5. But if a field bears thistles and thorns, it is useless. The farmer will condemn that field and burn it.

Philippians 3:19

  1. Their future is eternal destruction. Their god is their appetite, they brag about shameful things, and all they think about is this life here on earth.

Luke 11:24

  1. "When an evil spirit leaves a person, it goes into the desert, searching for rest. But when it finds none, it says, 'I will return to the person I came from.'
  2. So it returns and finds that its former home is all swept and clean.
  3. Then the spirit finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all enter the person and live there. And so that person is worse off than before."

Deuteronomy 32:29

  1. Oh, that they were wise and could understand this! Oh, that they might know their fate!

2 Peter 2:18

  1. They brag about themselves with empty, foolish boasting. With lustful desire as their bait, they lure back into sin those who have just escaped from such wicked living.

2 Peter 1:4

  1. And by that same mighty power, he has given us all of his rich and wonderful promises. He has promised that you will escape the decadence all around you caused by evil desires and that you will share in his divine nature.

2 Peter 1:2

  1. May God bless you with his special favor and wonderful peace as you come to know Jesus, our God and Lord, better and better.

Numbers 24:20

  1. Then Balaam looked over at the people of Amalek and delivered this prophecy: "Amalek was the greatest of nations, but its destiny is destruction!"

Matthew 12:43

  1. "When an evil spirit leaves a person, it goes into the desert, seeking rest but finding none.
  2. Then it says, 'I will return to the person I came from.' So it returns and finds its former home empty, swept, and clean.
  3. Then the spirit finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all enter the person and live there. And so that person is worse off than before. That will be the experience of this evil generation."
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