the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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2 Peter 2:3
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These false teachers only want your money. So they will use you by telling you things that are not true. But the judgment against these false teachers has been ready for a long time. And they will not escape God who will destroy them.
And in their greed they will exploit you with false words; from of old their condemnation has not been idle, and their destruction has not been asleep.
and thorow coveteousnes shall they with fayned wordes make marchandyse of you whose iudgement is not farre of and their dampnacion slepeth not.
In covetousness will they exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
Those false teachers only want your money, so they will use you by telling you lies. Their judgment spoken against them long ago is still coming, and their ruin is certain.
And in greed they shall with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old does not linger, and their destruction does not slumber.
And through covetousness they will with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
In covetousness will they exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
And through covetousness will they with feigned speeches make merchandize of you, whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.
Thirsting for riches, they will trade on you with their canting talk. From of old their judgement has been working itself out, and their destruction has not been slumbering.
and thei schulen make marchaundie of you in coueytise bi feyned wordis. To whiche doom now a while ago ceessith not, and the perdicioun of hem nappith not.
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.
In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.
They will be greedy and cheat you with smooth talk. But long ago God decided to punish them, and God doesn't sleep.
And in their greed they will exploit you with false arguments and twisted doctrine. Their sentence [of condemnation which God has decreed] from a time long ago is not idle [but is still in force], and their destruction and deepening misery is not asleep [but is on its way].
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.
And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.
In their greed they will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their punishment, decreed long ago, is not idle; their destruction is not asleep!
And through covetousness, with well-turned words, will they make merchandise of you: for whom judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction slumbers not.
In their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. The ancient verdict against them is still in force, and their destruction is not asleep.Deuteronomy 32:35; Romans 16:18; 2 Corinthians 2:17; 12:17-18; 1 Timothy 6:5; Titus 1:11; 2 Peter 1:16; Jude 1:4,15;">[xr]
3 And with fraudulency [fn] of deceptive words will they make merchandise of you; they, whose judgment (denounced) before tarrieth not, and whose destruction doth not sleep.
And, in the cupidity of raving words, they will make merchandise of you: whose judgment, of a long time, is not idle; and their destruction slumbereth not.
And through couetousnesse shall they with fained words, make marchandise of you, whose iudgement now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbreth not.
They will tell lies and false stories so they can use you to get things for themselves. But God judged them long ago and their death is on the way.
And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced against them long ago, has not been idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
And through couetousnes shall they with fained words make marchandise of you, whose condemnation long since resteth not, and their destruction slumbreth not.
And through covetousness, they will exploit you with feigned words: whose judgment from the very beginning has not ceased and their damnation is always active.
And, in greed, with forged words, will they, of you, make merchandise: for whom, the sentence from of old, is not idle, and, their destruction, doth not slumber.
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not: and their perdition slumbereth not.
And through couetousnesse, shall they with fayned wordes make marchaudize of you, whose iudgement is nowe not farre of, and their damnation sleepeth not.
In their greed these false teachers will make a profit out of telling you made-up stories. For a long time now their Judge has been ready, and their Destroyer has been wide awake!
They will exploit you in their greed with made-up stories. Their condemnation, pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
And in greediness they will exploit you with false words, whose condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
And by covetousness, with well-turned words, they will use you for gain, for whom judgment of old does not linger, and their destruction does not slumber.
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.
and thorow cuvetousnes shal they with fayned wordes make marchaundise of you, vpo who the iudgment is not necliget in tarienge of olde, and their damnacion slepeth not.
By their artful discourses they will make you the tools of their avarice; but their condemnation has been a long time advancing, and their ruin is far from lingring.
Lying Religious Leaders But there were also lying prophets among the people then, just as there will be lying religious teachers among you. They'll smuggle in destructive divisions, pitting you against each other—biting the hand of the One who gave them a chance to have their lives back! They've put themselves on a fast downhill slide to destruction, but not before they recruit a crowd of mixed-up followers who can't tell right from wrong. They give the way of truth a bad name. They're only out for themselves. They'll say anything, anything, that sounds good to exploit you. They won't, of course, get by with it. They'll come to a bad end, for God has never just stood by and let that kind of thing go on.
And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.
By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does [fn] not slumber.
These counterfeit cowboy's will sell their fabulous stories for a profit made off of your soul. The noose is ready for the counterfeit cowboys. Their judge has already slammed the gavel down on their destruction.
and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
through: 2 Peter 2:14, 2 Peter 2:15, Isaiah 56:11, Jeremiah 6:13, Jeremiah 8:10, Ezekiel 13:19, Micah 3:11, Malachi 1:10, Romans 16:18, 2 Corinthians 12:17, 2 Corinthians 12:18, 1 Timothy 3:3, 1 Timothy 3:8, 1 Timothy 6:5, Titus 1:7, Titus 1:11, 1 Peter 5:2, Jude 1:11
with: 2 Peter 1:16, Psalms 18:44, Psalms 66:3, Psalms 81:15, *marg. Luke 20:20, Luke 22:47, 1 Thessalonians 2:5
make: Deuteronomy 24:17, John 2:16, 2 Corinthians 2:17, Revelation 18:11-13
whose: 2 Peter 2:1, 2 Peter 2:9, Deuteronomy 32:35, Isaiah 5:19, Isaiah 30:13, Isaiah 30:14, Isaiah 60:22, Habakkuk 3:3, Luke 18:8, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, 1 Peter 2:8, Jude 1:4, Jude 1:7, Jude 1:15
Reciprocal: Numbers 22:19 - General Joshua 8:14 - he wist not Judges 18:4 - hired me Judges 18:20 - heart 2 Samuel 15:6 - stole 1 Kings 14:14 - but what 2 Kings 5:27 - leprosy Nehemiah 6:12 - hired him Job 18:12 - destruction Job 24:1 - seeing Job 34:20 - a moment Psalms 119:36 - and not to Proverbs 1:19 - every Proverbs 16:4 - yea Proverbs 21:6 - getting Proverbs 28:21 - for Proverbs 30:15 - Give Ecclesiastes 7:25 - the reason Ecclesiastes 8:13 - neither Isaiah 13:22 - her time Isaiah 57:17 - the iniquity Jeremiah 14:18 - go about Jeremiah 17:11 - he that Jeremiah 22:17 - covetousness Jeremiah 29:8 - your dreams Jeremiah 48:16 - near Jeremiah 51:13 - and the Ezekiel 12:24 - General Ezekiel 22:3 - that her Ezekiel 34:2 - Woe Hosea 4:8 - set their heart on their iniquity Habakkuk 2:3 - it will surely Zephaniah 1:14 - it is Zechariah 5:2 - flying Zechariah 11:5 - sell Matthew 18:7 - but Matthew 23:14 - therefore Matthew 26:15 - What Luke 12:15 - Take Luke 12:45 - and if Luke 22:5 - and covenanted Luke 22:22 - but John 10:1 - the same John 10:12 - he that Acts 1:25 - by Acts 16:16 - which Acts 19:25 - ye know Acts 24:26 - hoped Romans 9:22 - endured 2 Corinthians 4:5 - we 2 Corinthians 11:15 - whose Galatians 4:17 - zealously Ephesians 5:3 - covetousness Philippians 3:19 - end Philippians 4:17 - because 1 Thessalonians 5:9 - not 2 Thessalonians 2:12 - they 1 Timothy 6:9 - which 2 Timothy 3:2 - covetous Hebrews 13:5 - conversation 1 John 4:5 - and Revelation 18:13 - and souls
Cross-References
On the seventh day God had finished his work of creation, so he rested from all his work.
And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because it was the day when he rested from all his work of creation.
This is the account of the creation of the heavens and the earth. When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nostrils, and the man became a living person.
Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made.
A river flowed from the land of Eden, watering the garden and then dividing into four branches.
The first branch, called the Pishon, flowed around the entire land of Havilah, where gold is found.
The gold of that land is exceptionally pure; aromatic resin and onyx stone are also found there.
The second branch, called the Gihon, flowed around the entire land of Cush.
The third branch, called the Tigris, flowed east of the land of Asshur. The fourth branch is called the Euphrates.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And through covetousness;.... Which is generally a prevailing vice among false teachers, they having no other end in view than themselves; either to gain popular applause and vain glory, which they are always covetous of; or to amass riches to themselves, after which they have an insatiable desire:
shall they with feigned words; made words, words of their own devising, and not which the Holy Ghost teacheth; whereby they cover themselves, and privily introduce their pernicious principles; and therefore new words and phrases are always to be suspected and guarded against, especially in articles of moment and importance: or with flattering words and fair speeches, great swelling words of vanity, having men's persons in admiration, because of worldly advantage; and in this way they gain their point:
make merchandise of you; deal with the souls of men, as merchants do with their goods, carry them to market and sell them; so false teachers deal with the souls of their followers, draw them, and sell them to Satan, and they themselves pay for it; see Zechariah 11:5 but in the issue, and that in a short time, they will be no gainers by such practices:
whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not: that is, their condemnation, which God in righteousness has determined, "from the creation of the world", as the Ethiopic version reads, or from all eternity, see Judges 1:4, to bring them into, for their vile principles and practices, is not retarded and delayed; it does not linger and stay behind, or slacken its pace; it will not tarry, it will come upon them at the appointed time:
and their damnation slumbereth not; an avenging God, who has appointed them to damnation for their sins, slumbers not; the justice of God is not asleep, nor careless and negligent, but is awake, and watches over them, to bring the evil upon them they have deserved, and is in reserve for them, and will hasten to perform it; the determined destruction does not lie dormant, but in a little time will be stirred up, and fall with dreadful weight on such sinners, as may be concluded from the following awful instances.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And through covetousness - This shows what one of the things was by which they were influenced - a thing which, like licentiousness, usually exerts a powerful influence over the teachers of error. The religious principle is the strongest that is implanted in the human bosom: and men who can obtain a livelihood in no other way, or who are too unprincipled or too indolent to labor for an honest living, often turn public teachers of religion, and adopt the kind of doctrines that will be likely to give them the greatest power over the purses of others. True religion, indeed, requires of its friends to devote all that they have to the service of God and to the promotion of his cause; but it is very easy to pervert this requirement, so that the teacher of error shall take advantage of it for his own aggrandizement.
Shall they with feigned words - Greek formed, fashioned; then those which are formed for the occasion - feigned, false, deceitful. The idea is, thug the doctrines which they would defend were not maintained by solid and substantial arguments, but that they would make use of plausible reasoning made up for the occasion.
Make merchandise of you - Treat you not as rational beings but as a bale of goods, or any other article of traffic. That is, they would endeavor to make money out of them, and regard them only as fitted to promote that object.
Whose judgment - Whose condemnation.
Now of a long time lingereth not - Greek, “of old; long since.” The idea seems to be, that justice had been long attentive to their movements, and was on its way to their destruction. It was not a new thing - that is, there was no new principle involved in their destruction; but it was a principle which had always been in operation, and which would certainly be applicable to them, and of a long time justice had been impatient to do the work which it was accustomed to do. What had occurred to the angels that sinned, 2 Peter 2:4 to the old world, 2 Peter 2:5 and to Sodom and Gomorrah, 2 Peter 2:6 would occur to them; and the same justice which had overthrown them might be regarded as on its way to effect their destruction. Compare the notes at Isaiah 18:4.
And their damnation slumbereth not - Their condemnation, (Notes, 1 Corinthians 11:29) yet here referring to future punishment. “Mr. Blackwell observes, that this is a most beautiful figure, representing the vengeance that shall destroy such incorrigible sinners as an angel of judgment pursuing them on the wing, continually approaching nearer and nearer, and in the mean time keeping a watchful eye upon them, that he may at length discharge an unerring blow” - Doddridge. It is not uncommon to speak of “sleepless justice;” and the idea here is, that however justice may have seemed to slumber or to linger, it was not really so, but that it had on them an everwatchful eye, and was on its way to do that which was right in regard to them. A sinner should never forget that there is an eye of unslumbering vigilance always upon him, and that everything that he does is witnessed by one who will yet render exact justice to all men. No person, however careful to conceal his sins, or however bold in transgression, or however unconcerned he may seem to be, can hope that justice will always linger, or destruction always slumber.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 2 Peter 2:3. And through covetousness — That they might get money to spend upon their lusts, with feigned words, πλαστοις λογοις, with counterfeit tales, false narrations, of pretended facts, lying miracles, fabulous legends. "In this single sentence," says Dr. Macknight, "there is a clear prediction of the iniquitous practices of those great merchants of souls, the Romish clergy, who have rated all crimes, even the most atrocious, at a fixed price; so that if their doctrine be true, whoever pays the price may commit the crime without hazarding his salvation." How the popish Church has made merchandise of souls, needs no particular explanation here. It was this abominable doctrine that showed to some, then in that Church, the absolute necessity of a reformation.
Whose judgment now of a long time — From the beginning God has condemned sin, and inflicted suitable punishments on transgressors; and has promised in his word, from the earliest ages, to pour out his indignation on the wicked. The punishment, therefore, so long ago predicted, shall fall on these impure and incorrigible sinners; and the condemnation which is denounced against them slumbers not-it is alert, it is on its way, it is hurrying on, and must soon overtake them.
