What does 2 Peter 2:14 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Having eyes full of adultery,d and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:"
2 PETER 2:14 moicali,doj {A} Instead of moicali,doj (“an adulteress”), which is strongly supported by î72 B C 81 and most minuscules, Y _al_ read moicei,aj (“adultery”), while a A 33 _al_ read moica...
Verse 14. _HAVING EYES FULL OF ADULTERY_] μοιχαλιδος. _Of an_ _adulteress_; being ever bent on the gratification of their sensual desires, so that they are represented as having _an adulteress_ _const...
HAVING EYES FULL OF ADULTERY - Margin, as in the Greek, “an adulteress;” that is, gazing with desire after such persons. The word “full” is designed to denote that the corrupt passion referred to had...
II. THE EVIL TO COME THROUGH FALSE TEACHERS CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The source of the evil (2 Peter 2:1)_ 2. The lessons from the past. (2 Peter 2:4) 3. The description of the apostates (2 Peter 2:11) 2 P...
The sins of the false teachers are now described licentiousness (2 Peter 2:10), audacious blasphemy (2 Peter 2:10), open profligacy (2 Peter 2:13), and covetousness like that of Balaam (2 Peter 2:15)....
FALSE PROPHETS (2 Peter 2:1) _ 2:1 There were times when false prophets arose among the people, even as amongst you too there will be false teachers, men who will insidiously introduce destructive he...
ADULTERY. an adulteress. THAT CANNOT CEASE. Greek. _akatapaustos._ Only here. SIN. App-128. BEGUILING. See James 1:14. UNSTABLE. Greek. _asteriktos._ Only here and 2 Peter 3:16. SOULS. App-110....
_having eyes full of adultery_ The Greek gives literally the somewhat strange figure, HAVING EYES FULL OF AN ADULTERESS. The phrase is probably connected with a recollection of our Lord's words as to...
ὈΦΘΑΛΜΟῪΣ ἜΧΟΝΤΕΣ ΜΕΣΤΟῪΣ ΜΟΙΧΑΛΊΔΟΣ. Dr Bigg unhesitatingly rejects μοιχαλίδος as a blunder for μοιχείας: the only various reading in the MSS. is μοιχαλίας (אA and three cursives) which is not a poss...
ΈΧΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. (adj.) от_ ΕΧΩ (G2192) иметь, ΜΕΣΤΌΣ (G3324) полный. Это образное выражение, означающее, что взоры их все время устремлены на женщин, в поисках объекта для блуда (Bauckham)...
HAVING EYES FULL OF ADULTERY,— There is a prodigious strength in the original; it properly signifies their having an adulteress continually before their eyes;—_having eyes full of an adulteress._ Inst...
_2. CONCLUDING EXHORTATIONS AND DOXOLOGY, 2:14-18_ 2 Peter 2:14 having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; chil...
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: FULL OF ADULTERY. B C [ moichalidos ...
VERSE 14. HAVING EYES FULL OF ADULTERY. Their vision is lascivious to such an extreme that it is unceasing, and every effort is made by them to lead astray, by temptations to the sensual appetite, th...
The program of prophecy has gradually become clearer with added revelation. The preexile prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah know only...
2:14 covetousness, (m-20) Or 'carnal desire and seeking to seduce,' 'practised in seduction' is the sense....
WARNING AGAINST A THREATENED PLAGUE OF BRUTAL FALSE TEACHERS As of old there were false as well as true prophets, so it will be now. This leads the Apostle to speak about the false teachers, who if th...
JESUS WILL RETURN PETER’S SECOND LETTER _HILDA BRIGHT AND HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 2 FALSE TEACHERS Much of this chapter is similar to the letter of Jude. Some of the words are almost the same. Pe...
OF ADULTERY. — Literally, _of an adulteress._ This verse has no counterpart in Jude. THAT CANNOT CEASE FROM SIN. — Literally, _that cannot be made to cease from sin._ (Comp. attentively 1 Peter 4:1.)...
CHAPTER 24 "BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM" 2 Peter 2:10 THE Apostle now pictures in the darkest colors the evil-doing and evil character of those who are bringing into the Churches their "sect...
ἀκαταπαύστους ἀμαρτίας. For use of genitive with this verb, _cf._ 1 Peter 4:1. See Grammatical Note. δελεάζοντες. _Cf._ 2 Peter 2:18 and Mayor's note on James 1:14, “entice or catch by a bait”. κατάρα...
THE DARK WAY OF ANIMALISM 2 Peter 2:12 The description of these false teachers is terrific! They are slaves to their brute instincts. They are as abusive as they are ignorant. They destroy and will...
Turning to the subject of the perils threatening the Church, two are referred to - false teachers, and a materialization of mind which follows on such teaching. As in old days there were false prophet...
A SAD PORTRAIT OF FALSE TEACHERS The false teachers, of whom Peter spoke, were like animals with no conscience going about taking whatever they could by force. Man usually destroys such animals becau...
(7) Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: (7) He condemns those men, showing e...
And what is still an aggravation to the weight of their sins, they entice and allure others, _unstable souls, not sufficiently grounded in faith and virtue, by promising them liberty and happiness, th...
"The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: (10) But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of unclean...
In the second Epistle of Peter (and here I must be brief, because of the hour; and I may be brief because Jude will afford us a further consideration of it) we have the same substantial truth of God's...
14._Beguiling, _or _baiting_, _unstable souls. _By the metaphor of _baiting _he reminds the faithful to beware of their hidden and deceitful arts; for he compares their impostures to hooks which may c...
The next two Chapter s set before us, on the other hand, the two forms of evil that characterise the last days the false and corrupt teaching of bad men, and the unbelief which denies the return of th...
HAVING EYES FULL OF ADULTERY,.... For the seventh command is not only violated by unclean actions, and obscene words, but also by unchaste looks: and so the Jews explain k that precept, "thou shalt n...
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: Ver. 14. _Having eyes full of adultery_]...
_But these_ False teachers; _as natural brute beasts_ As irrational animals, led merely by their brutish inclinations, several of which, in the present disordered state of the world, seem to be _made...
CANNOT CEASE; not for want of natural power, but of disposition. Licentiousness and the love of money in professors of religion are decisive marks of hypocrisy, and show that those who live in these s...
A further characterization of the false teachers:...
But the true government of God has been hated and rejected -even by men claiming to be Christian. Peter, a true prophet, has forewarned of this in this chapter; and the day has come of which he has pr...
ADULTERY: _ Gr._ an adulteress...
_ 2 Peter 2:14 ‘having eyes full of adultery and that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having. heart trained in greed, accursed children;'_ ‘HAVING EYES FULL OF ADULTERY' -‘They lust af...
10-16 Impure seducers and their abandoned followers, give themselves up to their own fleshly minds. Refusing to bring every thought to the obedience of Christ, they act against God's righteous precept...
HAVING EYES; he mentions the eyes, both because they let in the objects of lust into the heart, JOB 31:1 MATTHEW 5:28, and because the signs of lust in the heart appear especially in the eyes, GENESIS...
2 Peter 2:14 having G2192 (G5723) eyes G3788 full G3324 adultery G3428 and G2532 from G180 sin G266 enticing G1185 (G5723) unstable G793 souls G5590 have G2192 (G5723) heart G2588 trained G1128 (G5772...
PETER'S INDICTMENT OF THE FALSE PREACHERS (2 PETER 2:10). Peter accuses the false teachers, who are in total contrast to Noah and Lot, both of whom had had connections with angelic beings in one way...
The second chapter of the Epistle stands entirely by itself. It is of so peculiar a character, that some have doubted whether it belonged originally to this Epistle, or could have been written by the...
OF ADULTERY (μοιχαλιδος). Rather, "of an adulteress," like James 4:4. Vivid picture of a man who cannot see a woman without lascivious thoughts toward her (Mayor). Cf. Matthew 5:28.THAT CANNOT CEAS...
SIN SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
CONTENTS: Warnings concerning apostate teachers. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Noah, Lot, Balaam. CONCLUSION: Where God sends His true messengers with His Word, the devil always sends some to seduce and...
2 Peter 2:1. _False teachers who bring in damnable heresies._ Sects leading to perdition, and to the extreme of punishment. Who were they? They were yet to come, in part; the roots only began as yet t...
THEY WANT. See Matthew 5:28 and note. The Greek says literally: "Having eyes full of an adulteress." This can mean: (1) they have an obsession to look at immoral women; (2) in their mind, every woman...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 2:1 Evaluation of False Teachers. In this third main section of his letter, Peter criticizes the false teachers, using biblical illustrations to do so. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = docu...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 2 Peter 2:10. DESPISE GOVERNMENT.—Dominion. Both self-restraint and restraint of good rules and wise authorities. Those who own no superior. EVIL OF DIGNITIES.—Lit. “T...
EXPOSITION 2 PETER 2:1 BUT THERE WERE FALSE PROPHETS ALSO AMONG THE PEOPLE; rather, as in the Revised Version, _but there arose false prophets also among the people. _The transition is simple and na...
False prophets have always been around. Now they don't wear signs, "I'm a false prophet". They come in sheep's clothing. They look like sheep. They come sometimes dripping with love and phrases of lov...
1 Corinthians 11:19; 1 John 2:16; 2 Peter 2:18; 2 Peter 2:3; 2 Peter 3:16; 2 Samuel 11:2; Colossians 2:18; Ephesians 2:3; Ephesians 4:14;...
Eyes. Another illustration of Peter's emphasis on sight. It is the instrument of evil no less than of good. Compare Matthew 5:28. Adultery [μ ο ι χ α λ ι δ ο ς]. Lit., an adulteress, but used as an a...
TIMELY WARNINGS 2 Peter 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It has been said that "to be forewarned is to be forearmed." If God had not told us the things which would surely come, to pass, we would not be prepa...