2 Peter 2:3

In their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. For a long time their condemnation has not been idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

Unlocked Literal 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

2Many will follow their sensuality, and through them the way of truth will be blasphemed.

4For God did not spare the angels who sinned. Instead he handed them down to Tartarus to be kept in chains of lower darkness until the judgment. + 2:4 Some other versions read, to be kept in pits of lower darkness until the judgment .

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 24:17You must not use force to take away the justice that is due the foreigner or the fatherless, nor take the widow's cloak as a pledge.

Psalms 18:44As soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me; foreigners were forced to bow to me. 1

Psalms 81:15May those who hate Yahweh cringe in fear before him! 1 May they be humiliated forever. 1

Isaiah 30:13so this sin will be to you 1 like a broken part ready to fall, like a bulge in a high wall 1 whose fall will happen suddenly, in an instant.” 1

Isaiah 60:22The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation; 1 I, Yahweh, will swiftly accomplish these things when the time comes.

Jeremiah 8:10So I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who will possess them, 1 because from the least to the greatest, all of them are greedy for dishonest gain! From the prophet to the priest, all of them practice deceit. 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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