2 Peter 2:3
and in covetousness, with forged words, they will make merchandise of you, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction does not slumber.
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Deuteronomy 24:17You do not turn aside the judgment of a fatherless sojourner, nor take the garment of a widow in pledge;
Psalms 18:44At the hearing of the ear they listen to me, || Sons of a stranger feign obedience to me,
Psalms 81:15Those hating YHWH should have feigned [obedience] to Him, || And their time would last for all time.
Isaiah 30:13Therefore this iniquity is to you as a breach falling, || Swelled out in a wall set on high, || Whose destruction comes suddenly, in an instant.
Isaiah 60:22The little one becomes a chief, || And the small one a mighty nation, || I, YHWH, hurry it in its own time!”
Jeremiah 8:10Therefore, I give their wives to others, || Their fields to dispossessors, || For from the least even to the greatest, || Everyone is gaining dishonest gain, || From prophet even to priest, everyone is dealing falsely.
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 →