2 Peter 2:3
and in covetousness will they with feigned words make merchandise of you; for whom the judgment long ago ordained lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.
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Psalms 18:44They who have only heard of me obey me; Yea, men of a strange land submit themselves to me;
Psalms 81:15The haters of Jehovah should have become suppliants to them, And their prosperity should have endured for ever.
Isaiah 30:13Therefore shall this iniquity be to you Like a breach ready to give way, That swelleth out in a high wall, Whose fall cometh suddenly, in an instant.
Isaiah 60:22The little one shall become a thousand, And the small one a strong nation; I, Jehovah, will hasten it in its time.
Jeremiah 8:10Therefore will I give their wives to others, And their fields to plunderers. For from the least of them even to the greatest, Every one is greedy of gain, Prophet and priest alike, Every one of them practiseth deceit.
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 →