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Destructive Doctrines

1 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be afalse teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.  
2 And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.
3 By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction1 does not slumber.  

Doom of False Teachers

4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to1 hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;  
5 and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;
6 and turning the cities of aSodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;  
7 and adelivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked  
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2 Peter 2:2

Lascivious doings (aselgeiaiv). Associative instrumental ease after ecakolouqhsousin (future active, for which verb see II Peter 1:16). See I Peter 4:3 for this word.

By reason of whom (di ouv). "Because of whom" (accusative case of relative, referring to polloi, many). Autwn (their) refers to yeudodidaskaloi (false teachers) while polloi to their deluded followers. See Romans 2:23 f. for a picture of such conduct by Jews (quotation from Isaiah 52:5, with blasfhmew used as here with di umav, because of you).

The way of truth (h odov thv alhqeiav). odov (way) occurs often in N.T. for Christianity (Acts 9:2; Acts 16:17; Acts 18:25; Acts 22:4; Acts 24:14). This phrase is in Genesis 24:48 as "the right road," and that is what Peter means here. So Psalms 119:30. See again II Peter 2:15, II Peter 2:21.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 2 Peter 2:2:

2 Peter 1:16
2 Peter 2:3
2 Peter 2:10
2 Peter 2:15
2 Peter 2:21

 

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