2 Pedro 2:19 NVT

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 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.Jesus the Lord himself said, "Every one that committeth sin is the bondservant of sin" (John 8:34); and Paul declared that, "To whom ye present yourselves as servants unto obedience, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness" (Romans 6:16). Thus, what Peter said here is exactly an echo of... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Peter 2:19

2 Peter 2:19. While they promise them liberty,— Nothing is more sweet or desirable than liberty; and therefore in order to allure men to become their disciples, they promised them liberty: by which they meant licentiousness, or a liberty to gratify their lusts, and to do any thing, whatever they pleased, without any fear of an invisible Governor, and a future punishment. That, as they pretended, was the true Christian liberty: God saw no sin in those who understood and believed aright. If they... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Peter 2:19

19. promise . . . liberty—(Christian)—These promises are instances of their "great swelling words" ( :-). The liberty which they propose is such as fears not Satan, nor loathes the flesh. Pauline language, adopted by Peter here, and 1 Peter 2:16; see on 1 Peter 2:16- :; (compare 2 Peter 3:15; Romans 6:16-22; Romans 8:15; Romans 8:21; Galatians 5:1; Galatians 5:13; compare Galatians 5:13- :). corruption—(See on Galatians 5:13- :); "destroyed . . . perish . . . corruption." of whom—"by whatever .... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Peter 2:10-19

C. The Conduct of False Teachers 2:10b-19Peter next emphasized the conduct of false teachers to motivate his readers to turn away from them. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Peter 2:19

By promising freedom from eschatological judgment to their hearers while they themselves were the slaves of corruption, the false teachers were ". . . like a 300-pound man selling diet books." [Note: Gangel, p. 873.] Slavery, after all, occurs whenever one is under the control of some influence, not just some other person."The false teachers reveal the futility of their promise of freedom from moral requirements by living lives enslaved to immorality themselves." [Note: Moo, p. 144.] "Seneca... read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - 2 Peter 2:19

2:19 by (a-18) Or 'to him.' read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 2:1-22

Warning Against a Threatened Plague of Brutal False TeachersAs 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 they have not already begun-he expects will trouble his readers. Prophets were important persons in the early Church: cp. Acts 11:27; 1 Corinthians 12:28.; 1 Corinthians 14:29.; Ephesians 2:20; Ephesians 3:5; Ephesians 4:11. These teachers, who had doubtless been baptised, claimed, it would seem, to... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Peter 2:19

(19) Promise them liberty.—A specimen of the “great swelling words”—loud, high-sounding talk about liberty. The doctrines of Simon Magus, as reported by Irenæus (I., chap. xxiii. 3) and by Hippolytus (Refut. VI., chap. xiv.), show us the kind of liberty that such teachers promised—being “freed from righteousness” to become “the slaves of sin.”Servants of corruption.—Better, bond-servants, or slaves of corruption. Our translators have often done well in translating the Greek word for “slave” by... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 2 Peter 2:1-22

2 Peter 2:22 'I entered on this farm,' Burns wrote to Dr. Moore (2nd Aug. 1787), 'with a full resolution, "Come, go to, I will be wise!" I read farming books, I calculated crops, I attended markets, and in short, in spite of the devil and the world and the flesh, I believe I should have been a wise man, but the first year, from unfortunately buying bad seed, the second from a late harvest, we lost half our crops. This overset all my wisdom, and I returned, "like the dog to his vomit, and the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 2:17-22

Chapter 25 ALTOGETHER BECOME ABOMINABLE2 Peter 2:17-22THE Apostle now describes these traitors to the cause of Christ under another aspect. They proffer themselves as guides and teachers. As such they should be sources of refreshment and help. But in every respect they belie the character which they have assumed. "These are springs without water." The blessing of a spring is only known to the full in Eastern lands. Hence it is that in Bible language wells and fountains are constantly used as... read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Peter 2:19

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Peter 2:19

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Peter 2:19

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Peter 2:10-19

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Peter 2:19

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - 2 Peter 2:19

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 2:1-22

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Peter 2:19

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 2 Peter 2:1-22

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 2:17-22

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