Polyglot Bible: 2 Peter: 2 Peter 2

This is a parallel-text presentation of 2 Peter chapter 2, displaying the same biblical passage in three versions side by side: the Greek New Testament (GNT), the King James Version (KJV), and the Latin Vulgate (Vul). It belongs to the New Testament epistolary tradition, likely composed in the late first or early second century CE. The chapter is a sustained polemic warning Christian communities against false teachers who have infiltrated the church — people characterized by greed, licentiousness, arrogance, and apostasy from the faith. The author argues his case through a series of Old Testament precedents: God punished sinning angels by casting them into Tartarus, destroyed the ungodly world by flood while saving Noah, and annihilated Sodom and Gomorrah while rescuing Lot — establishing that God both judges the wicked and delivers the righteous. A distinctive and severe claim is made near the end: those who knew "the way of righteousness" and then turned back are worse off than if they had never known it at all, illustrated by the vivid proverbs of a dog returning to its vomit and a washed sow returning to mud. The parallel-column format — with Strong's concordance numbers embedded in the KJV column — suggests this is a scholarly or devotional study resource intended for textual comparison across the Greek source, the Latin ecclesiastical standard, and the dominant English Protestant translation.

Polyglot Bible: 2 Peter: 2 Peter 2

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