2 Peter 2:3

Because the teachers of false teaching want a lot of things that other people have, they think that by telling you stories that they themselves have ◄made up/invented►, they will get money from you. God decided long ago that he would punish them, and he has not fallen asleep [LIT]! He will certainly destroy them!

Translation for Translators

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 people will behave in an extremely immoral manner, imitating the extremely immoral way these teachers who teach false things behave. As a result, unbelievers will ◄discredit the true message/say the true message is false►.

4God destroyed [LIT] the angels who sinned. He threw them into the worst place in hell and imprisoned them there in darkness in order to keep them there until he judges and punishes them.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 24:17“You must [LIT] do for foreigners who live among you and for orphans what the laws state must be done for them. And if you lend something to a widow, do not take her coat from her as a guarantee that she will return it.

Psalms 18:44When foreigners hear about me, they ◄cringe/bow low before me► and they obey me.

Psalms 81:15Then all those who hate me would ◄cringe before/bow down to► me, and then I would punish them [MTY] forever.

Isaiah 30:13Therefore, the result of your sin of rejecting me will be that you will suddenly experience disasters; what will happen to you will be like [SIM] a cracked wall that suddenly collapses [DOU].

Isaiah 60:22At that time, the groups that are very small now will become very large clans, and small clans will become great nations. All those things will happen because, I, Yahweh, will cause them to happen at the right time.”

Jeremiah 8:10So, I will give their wives to other men; I will give their fields to the enemy soldiers who conquer them. All the people, including those who are important and those who are not important, deceive others in order to obtain their possessions. Even my prophets and my priests do that.

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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