2 Peter 2:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

Eyes

1 John 2:16

That cannot

Beguiling

An heart

2 Peter 2:3

Jude 1:11

Cursed

General references

Proverbs 4:16

James 1:8

Bible References

Eyes

One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of his palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. Now this woman was very attractive.

If my footsteps have strayed from the way, if my heart has gone after my eyes, or if anything has defiled my hands,

Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes;

But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

because all that is in the world (the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is not from the Father, but is from the world.

That cannot

Wash! Cleanse yourselves! Remove your sinful deeds from my sight. Stop sinning!

But there is little hope for you ever doing good, you who are so accustomed to doing evil. Can an Ethiopian change the color of his skin? Can a leopard remove its spots?

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.

How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don't seek the praise that comes from the only God?

Beguiling

For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.

speaking of these things in all his letters. Some things in these letters are hard to understand, things the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they also do to the rest of the scriptures.

For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, the elect.

For these are the kind who do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of the naive.

For there must in fact be divisions among you, so that those of you who are approved may be evident.

So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind.

since he is a double-minded individual, unstable in all his ways.

So that huge dragon -- the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world -- was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.

An heart

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.

Woe to them! For they have traveled down Cain's path, and because of greed have abandoned themselves to Balaam's error; hence, they will certainly perish in Korah's rebellion.

Cursed

He says, "Indeed, my sword has slaughtered heavenly powers. Look, it now descends on Edom, on the people I will annihilate in judgment."

Never again will one of her infants live just a few days or an old man die before his time. Indeed, no one will die before the age of a hundred, anyone who fails to reach the age of a hundred will be considered cursed.

"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels!

among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest

General references

For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.

since he is a double-minded individual, unstable in all his ways.