2 Peter 2:3
and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.
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Deuteronomy 24:17'Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of a fatherless sojourner, nor take in pledge the garment of a widow;
Psalms 18:44At the hearing of the ear they hearken to me, Sons of a stranger feign obedience to me,
Psalms 81:15Those hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him, But their time is — to the age.
Isaiah 30:13Therefore is this iniquity to you as a breach falling, Swelled out in a wall set on high, Whose destruction suddenly, at an instant cometh.
Isaiah 60:22The little one doth become a chief, And the small one a mighty nation, I, Jehovah, in its own time do hasten it!
Jeremiah 8:10Therefore, I give their wives to others, Their fields to dispossessors, For from the least even unto the greatest, Every one is gaining dishonest gain, From prophet even unto priest, every one is dealing 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 →