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

Matthew 5:28

1 John 2:16

That cannot

Matthew 12:34

John 5:44

Beguiling

An heart

2 Peter 2:3

Jude 1:11

Cursed

Matthew 25:41

Ephesians 2:3

General references

James 1:8

Bible References

Eyes

I, however, say to you that any one who looks at a woman with an impure intention has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

for all that the world can offer--the gratification of the earthly nature, the gratification of the eye, the pretentious life--belongs, not to the Father, but to the world.

That cannot

You brood of vipers! how can you, evil as you are, say anything good? For what fills the heart will rise to the lips.

How can you believe in me, when you receive honor from one another and do not desire the honor which comes from the only God?

Beguiling

With boastful and foolish talk, they appeal to the passions of man's lower nature, and, by their profligacy, entice those who are just escaping from the men who live such misguided lives.

It is the same in all his letters, when he speaks in them about these subjects. There are some things in them difficult to understand, which untaught and weak people distort, just as they do all other writings, to their own Ruin.

For false Christs and false Prophets will arise, and display signs and marvels, to lead astray, were it possible, even God's People.

For such persons are not serving Christ, our Master, but are slaves to their own appetites; and, by their smooth words and flattery, they deceive simple-minded people.

Indeed, there must be actual parties among you, for so only will the men of real worth become known.

Then we shall no longer be like infants, tossed backward and forward, blown about by every breath of human teaching, through the trickery and the craftiness of men, towards the snares of error;

Do not let any one defraud you of the reality by affecting delight in so-called 'humility' and angel-worship. Such a man busies himself with his visions, and without reason is rendered conceited by his merely human intellect.

Vacillating as he is, irresolute at every turn.

Then the great Dragon, the primeval Serpent, known as the 'Devil' and 'Satan,' who deceives all the world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.

An heart

In their covetousness they will try to make you a source of profit by their fabrications; but for a long time past their Sentence has not been standing idle, nor their Ruin slumbering.

Alas for them! They walk in the steps of Cain; led astray by Balaam's love of gain, they plunge into sin, and meet their ruin through rebellion like that of Korah.

Cursed

Then he will say to those on his left 'Go from my presence, accursed, into the 'aeonian fire which has been prepared for the Devil and his angels.'

And it was among them that we all once lived our lives, indulging the cravings of our earthly nature, and carrying out the desires prompted by that earthly nature and by our own thoughts. Our very nature exposed us to the Divine Wrath, like the rest of mankind.

General references

Vacillating as he is, irresolute at every turn.