American Standard Version
"And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of. "
— 2 Peter 2:2, American Standard Version
“And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.”
“Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.”
“And many will follow their debauched lifestyles. Because of these false teachers, the way of truth will be slandered.”
“And many shall follow their riotousness, through whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.”
“And a great number will go with them in their evil ways, through whom the true way will have a bad name.”
“And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.”
But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of.
And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.
For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;