2 Peter 2:11

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

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 2:1-22

But the true government of God has been hated and rejected -even by men claiming to be Christian. Peter, a true prophet, has forewarned of this in this chapter; and the day has come of which he has prophesied. As there were false prophets among the children of Israel in the Old Testament, so there are false teachers today, their number multiplied astonishingly. In subtle, insidious ways they introduce destructive heresies. Heresy may not at first be actually wicked teaching, but teaching of a... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 2:1-22

OCCASION OF THE WARNING We now consider the last division which treats of the occasion for this warning and exhortation, chapters 2-3. In brief, this occasion was in the incoming of false teachers in the church, 2 Peter 2:1 , whose success is predicted in 2 Peter 2:2 ; whose punishment is certain and dreadful, v. 3-9; and whose description follows in verses 10-22. We shall not enter upon this description in detail, and, indeed, it presents many difficulties of interpretation. The presence... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - 2 Peter 2:9-22

"The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: (10) But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. (11) Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. (12) But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 2:11

Whereas angels, &c. By comparing this place with what we read in St. Jude, (ver. 9) he speaks of the good angels whom God employed to banish the rebellious angels out of heaven, and on other occasions, who, though they had greater strength and power given them by the Almighty, yet did not bear execrable judgment against themselves; i.e. one against another, or against those who at first had been happy spirits with them in heaven; did not exult over them with injuries and reviling... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 2:10-16

10-16 Impure seducers and their abandoned followers, give themselves up to their own fleshly minds. Refusing to bring every thought to the obedience of Christ, they act against God's righteous precepts. They walk after the flesh, they go on in sinful courses, and increase to greater degrees of impurity and wickedness. They also despise those whom God has set in authority over them, and requires them to honour. Outward temporal good things are the wages sinners expect and promise themselves. And... read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - 2 Peter 2:1-99

2Pet 2 YET EVERYTHING OF GOD, and therefore good, is counterfeited by Satanic power, consequently chapter 2 begins with a warning. When in old time the Holy Ghost was moving holy men to give us utterances from God the great adversary moved and brought in among the people false prophets. We have many examples of this in the Scripture. In the days of Ahab things had reached such a pass that Elijah could say, “I, even I only remain a prophet of the Lord; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred and... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - 2 Peter 2:10-14

A further characterization of the false teachers: v. 10. Presumptuous are they, self. willed; they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. v. 11. Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. v. 12. But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption, v. 13. and shall receive the reward of... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - 2 Peter 2:11-22

2 Peter 2:10-22 (10b-22)Analysis:—Further description of the false teachers; their radical corruptness and daring scoffing; their perilous state.10bPresumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities,15 11Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation 12against them before the Lord.16 But these,17 as natural brute beasts18 made19 to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not;20 and shall utterly... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - 2 Peter 2:1-11

Doom and Deliverance 2 Peter 2:1-11 Already the early Church was threatened with destructive heresies introduced by men who desired only their self-aggrandizement. All the Apostles give warning against such, and point to character as the one supreme test of doctrine. The real drift of the heresies is to deny the Master, who bought us as slaves in the market of the world. Of all the bidders, there is none who has bidden so high as he. Many instances are quoted from the past to prove the... read more