2 Peter 2:2 NKJV

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Peter 2:2

And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.Many shall follow ... True Christianity was prophesied to be followed by a period of wholesale defection from the truth. The vast majority of people will fall in with error and immorality. The truth will not be popular in the period foretold here. As Adam Clarke said:Lasciviousness points to the nature of the heresies, a sort of Antinomianism; they pampered and indulged the lusts of the... read more

Thomas Coke

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

2 Peter 2:2. And many shall follow their pernicious ways, &c.— The absurd doctrines and wicked practices of professed Christians have done infinite harm, and often caused the enemies of religion to blaspheme. The Judaizers much infested the first Christians, and perverted many in the Churches of Corinth, Galatia, Ephesus, and Crete. The Nicolaitans, Carpocratians, and Gnostics succeeded them, being exceedinglyimpious in their principles, and obscene in their lives; and they occasioned great... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

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

2. follow—out: so the Greek. pernicious ways—The oldest manuscripts and Vulgate read, "licentiousness" (Judges 1:4). False doctrine and immoral practice generally go together (2 Peter 2:18; 2 Peter 2:19). by reason of whom—"on account of whom," namely, the followers of the false teachers. the way of truth shall be evil spoken of—"blasphemed" by those without, who shall lay on Christianity itself the blame of its professors' evil practice. Contrast 1 Peter 2:12. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Peter 2:1-3

A. The Characteristics of False Teachers 2:1-3 read more

Thomas Constable

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

Reckless and hardened immorality would accompany their doctrinal error."Clearly they permitted and defended immorality in a very broad sense." [Note: Bigg, p. 273.] When people abandon God’s standard of truth they usually adopt a lower standard of morality. Since sensuality appeals to the flesh, many people follow the example of heretics believing that they are correct in doing so because of the rationalizations of their teachers."No doctrine, however senseless and monstrous, which under the... 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 2:2

(2) Many shall follow their pernicious ways.—“Pernicious ways” is a translation of the plural of the word just rendered “destruction.” (See fourth Note on 2 Peter 2:1.) But here the reading is undoubtedly wrong. The margin has the right reading—lascivious ways (or better, wanton ways)—being the plural of the word translated “wantonness” in 2 Peter 2:18. Wiclif has “lecheries;” Rheims “riotousnesses.”The connexion between false doctrine and licentiousness was often real, and is so still in some... 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 2:1-9

Chapter 23 THE LORD KNOWETH HOW TO DELIVER2 Peter 2:1-9THIS second chapter contains much more of a direct description of the heretical teaching and practices from which the converts were in danger, and is full of warning and comfort, both alike drawn from that Old Testament prophecy to the light of which St. Peter has just been urging them to take heed. The chapter has many features and much of its language in common with the Epistle of St. Jude. But the opening of the chapter seems a suitable... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 2 Peter 2:1-22

II. THE EVIL TO COME THROUGH FALSE TEACHERS CHAPTER 2 1. The source of the evil (2 Peter 2:1-3 ) 2. The lessons from the past. (2 Peter 2:4-10 ) 3. The description of the apostates (2 Peter 2:11-22 ) 2 Peter 2:1-3 The Apostle Peter is now being used by the Spirit of God to prophesy. He predicts the coming evil for the professing church, that apostate teachers would do their vicious work. As pointed out in the introduction every other writer of the Epistles bears the same witness and that... read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Peter 2:2

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

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

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Peter 2:1-3

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

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

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

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

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 2:1-9

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 2 Peter 2:1-22

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