2 Peter 2:15-22 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Peter 2:10-22

The apostle's design being to warn us of, and arm us against, seducers, he now returns to discourse more particularly of them, and give us an account of their character and conduct, which abundantly justifies the righteous Judge of the world in reserving them in an especial manner for the most severe and heavy doom, as Cain is taken under special protection that he might be kept for uncommon vengeance. But why will God thus deal with these false teachers? This he shows in what follows. I.... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Peter 2:15-16

2:15-16 They have left the straight road and have gone awandering, and have followed the road of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the profit which unrighteousness brings and who was convicted of his lawlessness. A dumb ass spoke with a man's voice and checked the prophet's folly. Peter likens the evil men of his time to the prophet Balaam. In the popular Jewish mind Balaam had come to stand as the type of all false prophets. His story is told in Numbers 22:1-41 ; Numbers 23:1-30 ; ... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Peter 2:17-22

2:17-22 These people are waterless springs, mists driven by a squall of wind; and the gloom of darkness is reserved for them. With talk at once arrogant and futile, they ensnare by appeals to shameless, sensual passions those who are only just escaping from the company of those who live in error. promising them freedom, while they themselves are the slaves of moral corruption; for a man is in a state of slavery to that which has reduced him to helplessness. If they have escaped the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 2:15

Which have forsaken the right way ,.... The right way of the Lord, the way of truth, the Gospel of truth; or Christ, who is the way, the truth, and the life; the true way to eternal life, and which is the right way to eternal happiness; the way of life, righteousness, and salvation by Christ, the Christian faith, and the doctrine of it, which they once professed, but now relinquished: and are gone astray ; from the right way, the way of truth and holiness, into the paths of error and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 2:16

But was rebuked for his iniquity ,.... Which was not merely going along with the messengers of Balak, for he had leave from the Lord so to do, Numbers 22:20 ; but going along with them with a desire to curse Israel, when it was the will of God he should go and bless them, in order to get Balak's money; so that his governing iniquity was covetousness, which led him to other sins; and for this he was rebuked by the angel, Numbers 22:32 , as well as reproved by his ass, Numbers 22:28 ,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 2:17

These are wells without water ,.... Which look large and deep, promise much, and have nothing in them; so these men looked like angels of light, transformed themselves as ministers of righteousness, had a form of godliness, and boasted of their great knowledge; promised great advantages to their followers, but were like deceitful brooks, or dry wells, and so disappointed those that came to them, and attended on them; having nothing but the filth and slime of error and iniquity, being... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 2:18

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity ,.... Marvellous things against the God of gods, great things and blasphemies against God, his name, his tabernacle, and his saints; see Daniel 11:36 ; or against men, dominions, and dignities, 2 Peter 2:10 ; or it may design their self-applauses and vain glorying in themselves, and their empty boast of knowledge and learning; and also express the windiness of their doctrines, and the bombast style, and high flown strains of rhetoric... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 2:19

While they promise them liberty ,.... Not Christian liberty, which lies in a freedom from sin, its dominion, guilt, and condemnation, and in serving God with liberty, cheerfulness, and without fear; but a sinful carnal liberty, a liberty from the law of God, from obedience to it as a rule of walk and conversation, and from the laws of men, from subjection to the civil magistrate, and from servitude to masters, and obedience to parents; a liberty to lay aside and neglect the ordinances of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 2:20

For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world ,.... The sins of it, the governing vices of it, which the men of the world are addicted to, and immersed in; for the whole world lies in wickedness, and which are of a defiling nature: the phrase is Rabbinical; it is said F17 Zohar in Gen. fol. 104. 3. Vid. Bechinot Olam, p. 178. , "he that studies not in the law in this world, but is defiled בטנופי עלמא , "with the pollutions of the world", what is written of him? and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 2:21

For it had been better for them ,.... Not that ignorance is good, or to be excused; but it would have been a lesser evil, and not so much aggravated: not to have known the way of righteousness ; the same with "the way of truth", 2 Peter 2:2 , and "the right way", 2 Peter 2:15 , the Gospel, which points out the way and method of a sinner's justification before God, which is not by the works of the law, but by the righteousness of Christ imputed to them, and received by faith; and... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Peter 2:10-22

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Peter 2:15-16

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Peter 2:17-22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 2:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 2:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 2:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 2:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 2:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 2:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 2:21

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