2 Peter 2:3
And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.
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Deuteronomy 24:17Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take the widow’s raiment to pledge:
Psalms 18:44As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
Psalms 81:15The haters of the LORD should submit themselves unto him: but their time should endure for ever.
Isaiah 30:13therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
Isaiah 60:22The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in its time.
Jeremiah 8:10Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall possess them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth 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 →