2 Peter 2:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

Through

With

1 Thessalonians 2:5

Make

General references

Leviticus 15:8

Numbers 22:19

Ezekiel 12:24

Bible References

Through

having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease to sin, beguiling unstable souls. Hearts they have exercised with covetousness. They are cursed children,

They are shameless dogs, that be never satisfied. The shepherds also in like manner have no understanding, but every man turneth his own way, everyone after his own covetousness, with all his power.

"For from the least unto the most, they hang all upon covetousness: and from the prophet unto the priest, they go all about with falsity and lies.

Wherefore, I will give their wives unto aliens, and their fields to destroyers. For from the lowest to the highest, they follow all filthy lucre: and from the Prophet unto the priest, they deal all with lies.

and dishonour me to my people for a handful of barley, and for a piece of bread. When ye kill the souls of them that die not, and promise life to them that live not: Thus ye dissemble with my people, that believeth your lies.

O ye judges, ye give sentence for gifts; O ye priests, ye teach for lucre; O ye prophets, ye prophesy for money. Yet will they be taken as those that hold upon God, and say, "Is not the LORD among us? Tush, there can no misfortune happen us."

Yea, what is he among you, that will do so much as to shut the doors, or to kindle the fire upon mine altar for naught? I have no pleasure in you, sayeth the LORD of Hosts: and as for the meat offering, I will not accept it at your hand.

For they that are such serve not the Lord Jesus Christ: but their own bellies. And with sweet preachings and flattering words deceive the hearts of the innocents:

Did I defraud you by any of them which I sent unto you?

not drunken, no fighter, not given to filthy lucre: but gentle, abhorring fighting, abhorring covetousness,

and vain disputations of men with corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, which think that lucre is godliness. From such, separate thyself.

For a bishop must be faultless, as it becometh the minister of God; not stubborn, not angry, no drunkard, no fighter, not given to filthy lucre:

see that ye feed Christ's flock, which is among you, taking the oversight of them: not as though ye were compelled thereto, but willingly; Not for the desire of filthy lucre, but of a good mind.

Woe be unto them, for they have followed the way of Cain, and are utterly given to the error of Balaam for lucre's sake, and are cast away in the treason of Korah.

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For we followed not deceitful fables when we opened unto you the power, and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but with our eyes we saw his majesty:

As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me, but the strange children dissemble with me. {TYNDALE: And the aliens crouched unto me, and obeyed me at a word.}

Say unto God, "O how wonderful are thy works? Through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies be found liars unto thee.

The haters of the LORD should have been found liars; but their time should have endured for ever.

Neither was our conversation at any time with flattering words - as ye well know - neither in cloaked covetousness, God is record:

Make

Hinder not the right of the stranger nor of the fatherless, nor take widow's raiment to pledge.

And said unto them that sold doves, "Have these things hence, and make not my father's house a house of merchandise."

For we are not as many are, which chop and change with the word of God: but even out of pureness, and by the power of God and in the sight of God, so speak we in Christ.

And the merchants of the earth shall weep and wail in themselves, for no man will buy their ware any more,

General references

If any such spit upon him that is clean, he must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until even.

Nevertheless tarry ye here all night: that I may know what the LORD will say unto me once more."

There shall no vision be in vain, neither any prophecy fail among the children of Israel: