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Verse 13

suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; men that count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceivings while they feast with you;

Wrong as the hire of wrong-doing ... is the same as Paul's "wages of sin is death." Evil behavior is its own wages.

Revel in the day-time ... "Daytime revelry is a feature of extreme dissipation; for the Christian, the day is the time of work (John 9:4; Romans 13:13; 1 Thessalonians 5:7f)."[45]

Spots and blemishes ... These are a reference to apostate Christians whose wicked and immoral behavior was a disgrace to the body of Christ.

Reveling in their deceivings ... The Greek text here falls short of using the word for love feasts, which would appear to have been in the apostle's mind, especially from his use of "while they feast with you" in connection with this. Perhaps he thought it was improper to apply a word of such sacred implications to the type of occasions used by the apostate teachers as a platform for their evil devices against the church.

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