2 Peter 2:1-3
A WARNING AGAINST THE FALSE TEACHERS OF ALL TIMES. The false teachers and their judgment:... [ Continue Reading ]
A WARNING AGAINST THE FALSE TEACHERS OF ALL TIMES. The false teachers and their judgment:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THERE WERE FALSE PROPHETS ALSO AMONG THE PEOPLE, EVEN AS THERE SHALL BE FALSE TEACHERS AMONG YOU, WHO PRIVILY SHALL BRING IN DAMNABLE HERESIES, EVEN DENYING THE LORD THAT BOUGHT THEM, AND BRING UPON THEMSELVES SWIFT DESTRUCTION.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND MANY SHALL FOLLOW THEIR PERNICIOUS WAYS, BY REASON OF WHOM THE WAY OF TRUTH SHALL BE EVIL SPOKEN OF.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THROUGH COVETOUSNESS SHALL THEY WITH FEIGNED WORDS MAKE MERCHANDISE OF YOU; WHOSE JUDGMENT NOW OF A LONG TIME LINGERETH NOT, AND THEIR DAMNATION SLUMBERETH NOT. Having emphasized the excellence of the true prophecy, the apostle now gives a description of false teaching, whose characteristics in... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IF GOD SPARED NOT THE ANGELS THAT SINNED, BUT CAST THEM DOWN TO HELL, AND DELIVERED THEM INTO CHAINS OF DARKNESS, TO BE RESERVED UNTO JUDGMENT;... [ Continue Reading ]
Examples from History:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SPARED NOT THE OLD WORLD, BUT SAVED NOAH, THE EIGHTH PERSON, A PREACHER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, BRINGING IN THE FLOOD UPON THE WORLD OF THE UNGODLY;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND TURNING THE CITIES OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH INTO ASHES, CONDEMNED THEM WITH AN OVERTHROW, MAKING THEM AN ENSAMPLE UNTO THOSE THAT AFTER SHOULD LIVE UNGODLY;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND DELIVERED JUST LOT, VEXED WITH THE FILTHY CONVERSATION OF THE WICKED;... [ Continue Reading ]
(FAR THAT RIGHTEOUS MAN, DWELLING AMONG THEM, IN SEEING AND HEARING, VEXED HIS RIGHTEOUS SOUL FROM DAY TO DAY WITH THEIR UNLAWFUL DEEDS;)... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD KNOWETH HOW TO DELIVER THE GODLY OUT OF TEMPTATIONS, AND TO RESERVE THE UNJUST UNTO THE DAY OF JUDGMENT TO BE PUNISHED;... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT CHIEFLY THEM THAT WALK AFTER THE FLESH IN THE LUST OF UNCLEANNESS, AND DESPISE GOVERNMENT. St. Peter here substantiates his statement concerning the punishment which is sure to strike the false teachers by a reference to history, which shows that God's avenging hand always finds those that are g... [ Continue Reading ]
A further characterization of the false teachers:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREAS ANGELS, WHICH ARE GREATER IN POWER AND MIGHT, BRING NOT RAILING ACCUSATION AGAINST THEM BEFORE THE LORD.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THESE, AS NATURAL BRUTE BEASTS, MADE TO BE TAKEN AND DESTROYED, SPEAK EVIL OF THE THINGS THAT THEY UNDERSTAND NOT; AND SHALL UTTERLY PERISH IN THEIR OWN CORRUPTION,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SHALL RECEIVE THE REWARD OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, AS THEY THAT COUNT IT PLEASURE TO RIOT IN THE DAYTIME. SPOTS THEY ARE AND BLEMISHES, SPORTING THEMSELVES WITH THEIR OWN DECEIVINGS WHILE THEY FEAST WITH YOU;... [ Continue Reading ]
HAVING EYES FULL OF ADULTERY, AND THAT CANNOT CEASE FROM SIN; BEGUILING UNSTABLE SOULS; AN HEART THEY HAVE EXERCISED WITH COVETOUS PRACTICES; CURSED CHILDREN. This is a harsh, but true description of the false teachers, showing just how the Lord regards people that do not hesitate to steal His honor... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH HAVE FORSAKEN THE RIGHT WAY, AND ARE GONE ASTRAY, FOLLOWING THE WAY OF BALAAM, THE SON OF BOSOR, WHO LOVED THE WAGES OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS,... [ Continue Reading ]
Balaam's example:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WAS REBUKED FOR HIS INIQUITY; THE DUMB ASS, SPEAKING WITH MAN'S VOICE, FORBADE THE MADNESS OF THE PROPHET. The character and the motive of the false teachers is brought out strongly by the comparison with the behavior of Balaam: Having left the right way, they have gone astray, by exactly follow... [ Continue Reading ]
THESE ARE WELLS WITHOUT WATER, CLOUDS THAT ARE CARRIED WITH A TEMPEST; TO WHOM THE MIST OF DARKNESS IS RESERVED FOREVER.... [ Continue Reading ]
The spiritual slavery of the false teachers and its consequences:... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHILE THEY PROMISE THEM LIBERTY, THEY THEMSELVES ARE THE SERVANTS OF CORRUPTION; FOR OF WHOM A MAN IS OVERCOME, OF THE SAME IS HE BROUGHT IN BONDAGE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IF, AFTER THEY HAVE ESCAPED THE POLLUTIONS OF THE WORLD THROUGH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, THEY ARE AGAIN ENTANGLED THEREIN AND OVERCOME, THE LATTER END IS WORSE WITH THEM THAN THE BEGINNING.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IT HAD BEEN BETTER FOR THEM NOT TO HAVE KNOWN THE WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS THAN, AFTER THEY HAVE KNOWN IT, TO TURN FROM THE HOLY COMMANDMENT DELIVERED UNTO THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IT IS HAPPENED UNTO THEM ACCORDING TO THE TRUE PROVERB, THE DOG IS TURNED TO HIS OWN VOMIT AGAIN; AND THE SOW THAT WAS WASHED, TO HER WALLOWING IN THE MIRE. The apostle opens this paragraph by picturing the deceitful manner of alluring men which the false teachers use: These are springs without... [ Continue Reading ]