2 Peter 2:3
They will greedily exploit you with false tales. However, they are already condemned: their sentence has been hanging over them for a long time, and their destruction won't be postponed.
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Deuteronomy 24:17Don't treat foreigners or orphans unjustly; don't take a widow's cloak as security.
Psalms 18:44As soon as they hear of me, they obey; foreigners cringe before me.
Psalms 81:15Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him, forever doomed.
Isaiah 30:13your punishment will suddenly fall on you, like a high wall that bulges out and collapses in an instant.
Isaiah 60:22The smallest of your families will increase to a thousand, and the most insignificant will become a great nation. I am the Lord; at the right time I will do this quickly.
Jeremiah 8:10I'm going to give their wives to others, and their fields to different owners, since everyone cheats because they're greedy, poor and rich alike. Even prophets and priests—they are all dishonest liars!
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 →