They count it pleasure to riot in the day time — They glory in doing it in the face of the sun. They are spots in themselves, blemishes to any church. Sporting themselves with their own deceivings — Making a jest of those whom they deceive and even jesting while they are deceiving their own souls.
2 PETER 2:13 avdikou,menoi {B} The reading avdikou,menoi, which is supported by early and diversified witnesses (î72 a* B P Y 1175 1852 syrph arm), involves a very rare construction with...
Verse 13. _THEY THAT COUNT IT PLEASURE TO RIOT IN THE DAY_ _time._] Most sinners, in order to practise their abominable pleasures, seek the secrecy of the night; but these, bidding defiance to all dec...
AND SHALL RECEIVE THE REWARD OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS - The appropriate recompense of their wickedness in the future world. Such people do not always receive the due recompense of their deeds in the present...
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)...
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 ...
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...
But these, like brute beasts, knowing no law but their instincts, born only for capture and corruption, speak evil of the things about which they know nothing; they will be destroyed with their own co...
REWARD. wages. Greek. _misthos._ UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. App-128. Compare 2 Peter 2:15 and Acts 1:18. _ AS_ THEY, &C. = reckoning it (as they do). TO RIOT. living delicately. Greek. _truphe._ Only here and...
_and shall receive the reward of unrighteousness_ The words, which stand in the Greek as one of a series of participial clauses, are, perhaps, better joined with the last clause of the preceding verse...
ἈΔΙΚΟΎΜΕΝΟΙ ΜΙΣΘῸΝ�. This is the reading of א (first hand) BP, one Syriac version and the Armenian; whereas a corrector of א, ACKL, the Latin, Egyptian, and another Syriac version give the undoubtedly...
ΑΔΙΚΟΎΜΕΝΟΙ _praes. med. pass. part. от_ ΆΔΙΚΈΩ (G91) совершать несправедливость, поступать плохо; _med._ или _pass._ страдать от несправедливости, быть поврежденным (Kelly). Эта фраза, "ступать на пу...
AS THEY THAT COUNT IT PLEASURE TO RIOT, &C.— Some understand St. Peter as intimating, that they lived in riot and luxury every day. Others suppose the meaning to be, that they took pleasure in that ri...
2 PETER 2:13 SUFFERING WRONG AS THE HIRE OF WRONG-DOING; MEN THAT COUNT IT PLEASURE TO REVEL IN THE DAY-TIME, SPOTS AND BLEMISHES, REVELING IN THEIR DECEIVINGS WHILE THEY FEAST WITH YOU; _Expanded Tr...
And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast w...
VERSE 13. AND SHALL RECEIVE THE REWARD. Their debauchery, riot and evil conduct in the day-time is considered by them as pleasure. Their destruction is the necessary and legitimate reward for such ev...
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...
2:13 ephemeral (l-7) Or 'by day,' in contrast with 'they that be drunk are drunk in the night,' 1 Thessalonians 5:7-8 ....
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...
SPORTING THEMSELVES WITH THEIR OWN DECEIVINGS] RV 'revelling in their love-feasts.' Such a love-feast or common meal of the Christians is described in 1 Corinthians 11:20.; The abuses for which the Co...
Peter showed that bad moral behaviour is not worthwhile. Galatians 6:7-8 also says the same thing. People may enjoy *sin at the time, but the results are bad. Many people do evil things when it is dar...
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...
AND SHALL RECEIVE. — Literally, _about to receive_ (as they are). (Comp. 1 Peter 1:9; 1 Peter 5:4; see also _Epistle of Barnabas,_ iv. 12.) AS THEY THAT COUNT. — We must begin a fresh sentence, and so...
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 "sects...
ἀδικούμενοι μισθὸν ἀδικίας (_cf._ 2 Peter 2:12). This playing upon words is characteristic of 2 Peter, ἀδικεῖν has usually the sense of “doing harm to” (_cf._ Acts 25:10; Galatians 4:12). Here it woul...
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 b...
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 becaus...
And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, [as] they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots [they are] and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings (n) while they...
Counting the delights of the day to be pleasure; such is their impiety and their folly, that they have no regard to all the punishments they make themselves liable to, if they can but pass their days...
"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...
13._Count it pleasure _(171) As though he had said, “They place their happiness in their present enjoyments.” We know that men excel brute animals in this, that they extend their thoughts much farther...
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...
AND SHALL RECEIVE THE REWARD OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS,.... Due punishment, both in body and soul, for all their injustice to God and men; which will be a just recompense of reward they shall receive at the...
And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, _as_ they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots _they are_ and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feas...
_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...
RIOT IN THE DAYTIME; openly and shamelessly, while common transgressors are content to riot in the night. Romans 13:13; 1 THESSALONIANS 5:7....
A further characterization of the false teachers:...
AND SHALL RECEIVE THE REWARD OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, AS THEY THAT COUNT IT PLEASURE TO RIOT IN THE DAYTIME. SPOTS THEY ARE AND BLEMISHES, SPORTING THEMSELVES WITH THEIR OWN DECEIVINGS WHILE THEY FEAST WIT...
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...
_ 2 Peter 2:13 ‘suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it. pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you,'_ ‘...
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 precep...
OLBGrk; AND SHALL RECEIVE THE REWARD OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS: under this general term, all the several sins they are charged with are comprehended. AS THEY THAT COUNT IT PLEASURE TO RIOT IN THE DAY TIME; t...
2 Peter 2:13 receive G2865 (G5697) wages G3408 unrighteousness G93 count G2233 (G5740) pleasure G2237 carouse G5172 in
‘Themselves suffering wrong as the reward of wrongdoing, counting it pleasure to indulge themselves in the daytime (literally ‘in a day'), spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceivings while they...
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...
2 Peter 2:13. BUFFERING WRONG AS THE WAGES OF WRONG-DOING. The reading represented by the ‘shall _receive'_ of the A. V,, is displaced by another, meaning ‘suffering wrong,' which has the support of t...
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...
SUFFERING WRONG (αδικουμενο). Present middle or passive participle of αδικεω to do wrong. So Aleph B P, but A C K L have κομιουμενο (future middle participle of κομιζω), shall receive.AS THE HIRE O...
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 WILL BE PAID. _"For sin pays its wage death"_ (Romans 6:23). Compare Revelation 18:6. PLEASURE FOR THEM. Sinners ordinarily do their deeds in secret. These are so bold and arrogant that they do n...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 2:12 The false teachers behave in IRRATIONAL ways. They act LIKE... ANIMALS. They do not use reason or truth, only INSTINCT. Yet they behave like this while
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....
_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. “Th...
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 11:20; 1 Peter 4:4; 1 Thessalonians 5:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:8;...
And shall receive [κ ο μ ι ο υ μ ε ν ο ι]. Lit., being about or destined to receive. See on 1 Peter 1:9, and compare 1 Peter 5:4. Some good texts read ajdikoumenoi, suffering wrong. So Rev., suffering...
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...
Here we have many sad and dreadful instances given of the height of sensuality and brutishness which these seducers were arrived at, and had attained unto. Lord! how do fleshly lusts, and sensual affe...