2 Peter 2:18
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Berean Study Bible

With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.

Young's Literal Translation

for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh—lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error,

King James Bible

For when they speak great swelling [words] of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

Greek
With lofty
ὑπέρογκα (hyperonka)
Adjective - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 5246: Immoderate, boastful, excessive, pompous. From huper and ogkos; bulging over, i.e. insolent.

[but] empty
ματαιότητος (mataiotētos)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 3153: From mataios; inutility; figuratively, transientness; morally, depravity.

words, they appeal
φθεγγόμενοι (phthengomenoi)
Verb - Present Participle Middle - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 5350: To speak aloud, utter. Probably akin to pheggos and thus to phemi; to utter a clear sound, i.e. to proclaim.

[to the] sensual
ἀσελγείαις (aselgeiais)
Noun - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's 766: From a compound of a and a presumed selges; licentiousness.

passions
ἐπιθυμίαις (epithymiais)
Noun - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's 1939: Desire, eagerness for, inordinate desire, lust. From epithumeo; a longing.

of [the] flesh
σαρκὸς (sarkos)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 4561: Flesh, body, human nature, materiality; kindred.

[and] entice
δελεάζουσιν (deleazousin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1185: To allure, entice (by a bait). From the base of dolos; to entrap, i.e. delude.

those
τοὺς (tous)
Article - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

[who are] just
ὀλίγως (oligōs)
Adverb
Strong's 3641: Puny; especially neuter somewhat.

escaping
ἀποφεύγοντας (apopheugontas)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 668: To flee from, escape. From apo and pheugo; to escape.

from [others] who
τοὺς (tous)
Article - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

live
ἀναστρεφομένους (anastrephomenous)
Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 390: From ana and strepho; to overturn; also to return; by implication, to busy oneself, i.e. Remain, live.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

error.
πλάνῃ (planē)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 4106: Feminine of planos; objectively, fraudulence; subjectively, a straying from orthodoxy or piety.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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