2 Peter 2:3

And in their chomed (covetous) greed, they will exploit you with deceptive words. For them the Mishpat (Judgment) of old is not drei (idle) and their churban (ruin) does not slumber.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

In Context

2And many will follow them in walking in darchei zimah (the ways of licentiousness), and because of them the Derech HaEmes will be libeled with lashon hora.

4For if Hashem did not spare malachim that sinned, but cast them into Gehinnom, consigning them to the sharsherot (chains) of choshech to be kept for Mishpat;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 24:17Thou shalt not pervert the mishpat due the ger, nor of the yatom; nor take an almanahʼs raiment to pledge;

Psalms 18:44Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; 1 and Thou hast made me the Rosh (head) of the Goyim (nations); 1 an Am (people) whom I have not known shall serve me. 1

Psalms 81:15I should soon have subdued their oyevim 1 and turned My Yad (hand, power) against their adversaries. 1

Isaiah 30:13Therefore this avon shall be to you 1 as a cracking breach ready to fall, 1 a bulge in a high chomah (wall), 1 whose breaking cometh suddenly in an instant. 1

Isaiah 60:22The katon shall become an elef, 1 and the smallest a mighty nation; 1 I Hashem will hasten it in its time.

Jeremiah 8:10Therefore will I give their nashim unto others, 1 and their sadot to them that shall inherit them; 1 for every one from the katan even unto the gadol 1 is greedy for unjust gain, 1 from the navi even unto the kohen every one doeth sheker. 1

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 →

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