FALSE PROPHETS (2 Peter 2:1)
_ 2:1 There were times when false prophets arose among the people,
even as amongst you too there will be false teachers, men who will
insidiously introduce destructive heresies and deny the Lord who
bought them; and by so doing they will bring swift destruction on
thems... [ Continue Reading ]
And many will follow the way of their blatant immoralities and through
them the true way will be brought into disrepute. In their evil
ambition they will exploit you with cunningly forged arguments. Their
sentence was settled long ago, and now it is not inactive, and their
destruction is not asleep.... [ Continue Reading ]
If God did not spare even angels who had sinned, but condemned them to
the lowest hell and committed them to the pits of darkness, where they
remain kept for judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but
preserved in safety Noah, the preacher of righteousness, with seven
others, when he despa... [ Continue Reading ]
But these, like brute beasts, knowing no law but their instincts, born
only for capture and corruption, speak evil of the things about which
they know nothing; they will be destroyed with their own corruption,
and, like a man who is cheated, they will even lose the reward at
which their iniquity aim... [ Continue Reading ]
They have left the straight road and have gone awandering, and have
followed the road of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the profit
which unrighteousness brings and who was convicted of his lawlessness.
A dumb ass spoke with a man's voice and checked the prophet's folly.
Peter likens the evil me... [ Continue Reading ]
These people are waterless springs, mists driven by a squall of wind;
and the gloom of darkness is reserved for them. With talk at once
arrogant and futile, they ensnare by appeals to shameless, sensual
passions those who are only just escaping from the company of those
who live in error. promising... [ Continue Reading ]