2 Peter 2:3
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their perdition slumbereth not.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2And many shall follow their riotousnesses, through whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:17Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger nor of the fatherless, neither shalt thou take away the widow's raiment for a pledge.
Psalms 18:44Thou wilt deliver me from the contradictions of the people: thou wilt make me head of the Gentiles.
Psalms 81:15I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on them that troubled them.
Isaiah 30:13Therefore shall this iniquity be to you as a breach that falleth, and is found wanting in a high wall, for the destruction thereof shall come on a sudden, when it is not looked for.
Isaiah 60:22The least shall become a thousand, and a little one a most strong nation: I the Lord will suddenly do this thing in its time.
Jeremiah 8:10Therefore I will give their women to strangers, their fields to others for an inheritance: because from the least even to the greatest all follow covetousness: from the prophet even to the priest, all deal deceitfully.
Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 2:2-7
False Prophets and Corrupt Leaders. ( a. d. 67.) 1 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. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. 3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you— I. In the end of the former chapter there is… Read the whole commentary →