QUESTIONS OVER CHAPTER TWO 1. What does the author discuss in the last part of Chapter 1? 2. How does _this_ chapter begin, in contrast? 3. What kind of heresies would the false teacher bring in? 4. What (or whom) would they deny? 5. And therefore they would bring themselves ______________... [ Continue Reading ]
III. THE FALSE TEACHER: HIS DOCTRINES, CHARACTERISTICS, INFLUENCES, AND DOOM 2 Peter 2:1-22 CHAPTER II 2 Peter 2:1 But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that b... [ Continue Reading ]
2 PETER 2:2 AND MANY SHALL FOLLOW THEIR LASCIVIOUS DOINGS; BY REASON OF WHOM THE WAY OF TRUTH SHALL BE EVIL SPOKEN OF. _Expanded Translation_ And many shall follow (imitate, observe and use as a guide for their own lives) their unbridled, unrestrained, and shameless ways; because of whom the way o... [ Continue Reading ]
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. _Expanded Translation_ And with a greedy desire to have more (of this world's goods, riches, etc.) shall they with feigned, fab... [ Continue Reading ]
2 PETER 2:4 FOR IF GOD SPARED NOT ANGELS WHEN THEY SINNED, BUT CAST THEM DOWN TO HELL, AND COMMITTED THEM TO PITS[61] OF DARKNESS, TO BE RESERVED UNTO JUDGMENT; [61] Some manuscripts have chains. _EXPANDED TRANSLATION_ For if God did not spare (keep back his wrath from) the angels when they sinne... [ Continue Reading ]
2 PETER 2:5 AND SPARED NOT THE ANCIENT WORLD, BUT PRESERVED NOAH WITH SEVEN OTHERS, A PREACHER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, WHEN HE BROUGHT A FLOOD UPON THE WORLD OF THE UNGODLY; _Expanded Translation_ and did not spare (forbear, restrain his wrath from) the ancient (literally, original) world, but guarded a... [ Continue Reading ]
2 PETER 2:6 AND TURNING THE CITIES OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH INTO ASHES CONDEMNED THEM WITH AN OVERTHROW, HAVING MADE THEM AN EXAMPLE UNTO THOSE THAT SHOULD LIVE UNGODLY; _Expanded Translation_ and he reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes with a destructive overthrow, having condemned them... [ Continue Reading ]
2 PETER 2:7-8 AND DELIVERED RIGHTEOUS LOT, SORE DISTRESSED BY THE LASCIVIOUS LIFE OF THE WICKED (FOR THAT RIGHTEOUS MAN DWELLING AMONG THEM, IN SEEING AND HEARING, VEXED HIS RIGHTEOUS SOUL FROM DAY TO DAY WITH THEIR LAWLESS DEEDS); _Expanded Translation_ and delivered (saved, rescued) righteous (u... [ Continue Reading ]
2 PETER 2:9 THE LORD KNOWETH HOW TO DELIVER THE GODLY OUT OF TEMPTATION, AND TO KEEP THE UNRIGHTEOUS UNDER PUNISHMENT UNTO THE DAY OF JUDGMENT; _Expanded Translation_ (From the preservation of Noah and Lot with their families, remember that) the Lord knows how to rescue (save, deliver. Literally,... [ Continue Reading ]
2 PETER 2:10-11 BUT CHIEFLY THEM THAT WALK AFTER THE FLESH IN THE LUST OF DEFILEMENT, AND DESPISE DOMINION. DARING, SELF-WILLED, THEY TREMBLE NOT TO RAIL AT DIGNITIES: WHEREAS ANGELS, THOUGH GREATER IN MIGHT AND POWER, BRING NOT A RAILING JUDGMENT AGAINST THEM BEFORE THE LORD. _Expanded Translation... [ Continue Reading ]
2 PETER 2:12 BUT THESE, AS CREATURES WITHOUT REASON, BORN MERE ANIMALS TO BE TAKEN AND DESTROYED, RAILING IN MATTERS WHEREOF THEY ARE IGNORANT, SHALL IN THEIR DESTROYING SURELY BE DESTROYED, _Expanded Translation_ But these deceivers are like (irrational or) brute beasts (creatures) who are born a... [ Continue Reading ]
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 Translation_ Being wronged and treated unjustly as the wages (pay, reward) of their unrighteousness ... [ Continue Reading ]
_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; children of cursing; _Expanded Translation_ having eyes that are filled with adultery (adulterous look... [ Continue Reading ]
2 PETER 2:19 PROMISING THEM LIBERTY, WHILE THEY THEMSELVES ARE BONDSERVANTS OF CORRUPTION; FOR OF WHOM A MAN IS OVERCOME, OF THE SAME IS HE ALSO BROUGHT INTO BONDAGE. _Expanded Translation_ promising those whom they deceive liberty and freedom, while they themselves live as bondservants (slaves) o... [ Continue Reading ]
2 PETER 2:20 FOR IF, AFTER THEY HAVE ESCAPED THE DEFILEMENTS OF THE WORLD THROUGH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, THEY ARE AGAIN ENTANGLED THEREIN AND OVERCOME, THE LAST STATE IS BECOME WORSE WITH THEM THAN THE FIRST. _Expanded Translation_ For if, after having fled away from a... [ Continue Reading ]
2 PETER 2:21-22 FOR IT WERE BETTER FOR THEM NOT TO HAVE KNOWN THE WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, THAN, AFTER KNOWING IT, TO TURN BACK FROM THE HOLY COMMANDMENT DELIVERED UNTO THEM. IT HAS HAPPENED UNTO THEM ACCORDING TO THE TRUE PROVERB. THE DOG TURNING TO HIS OWN VOMIT AGAIN, AND THE SOW THAT HAD WASHED TO... [ Continue Reading ]