2 Peter 2:2

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Summary

2 Peter 2:2

And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

Pernicious ways

Romans 2:24

1 Timothy 5:14

Titus 2:5

Way

General references

1 Timothy 5:15

Bible References

Pernicious ways

for (as it is written) the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles by your miscarriages.

I enjoin therefore the young women to marry, to detest abortion, to govern their families, and give our enemies no handle for reproach.

to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, good oeconimists, beneficent, submissive to their husbands,

Way

and are gone astray to follow the practices of Balaam of Bosor, who loved the wages of iniquity;

but the gate which leads to life is narrow, and the way is difficult, and few there be that find it.

they dispatch'd therefore some of their disciples, together with the Herodians, who thus address'd themselves to him; master, we know that you are sincere, and faithfully teach the divine law without fear or flattery: for you have no regard to the outward quality of men.

when they were come, they said to him, master, we know that you are sincere, that you are not influenced by any one, for you have no regard to the person of men: but teach us the way of God according to truth. now should we pay tribute to Cesar, or no? shall we pay, or shall we not pay?

Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no man can come to the father, but by me.

and said, "thou heap of imposture and mischief, offspring of the devil, and enemy to all justice, wilt thou not cease to pervers men from the right ways of the Lord?

as she followed Paul and the rest of us, she cried out, these men are the servants of the most high God, who show you the way to salvation.

having talk'd with great freedom in the synagogue, Aquila and Priscilla, who had heard him, invited him home, and gave him a more distinct view of the gospel.

but some of them being such obdurate infidels as to inveigh against the institution before the populace, he retired, and taking the disciples with him, he instructed them daily in the school of one Tyrannus.

I do indeed own, that I serve the God of our nation according to the discipline they call sect: and believe whatever is written in the law and in the prophets.

General references

for some have already revolted to paganism.