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

2 Peter 1:16

1 Thessalonians 2:5

Make

John 2:16

2 Corinthians 2:17

Revelation 18:11

Bible References

Through

having eyes full of lustfulness, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstable souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of a curse;

For those who are such are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and, through their kind words and flattering speeches, they beguile the hearts of the simple.

Did I gain advantage over you through any one of those whom I have sent to you?

not given to wine, not a striker, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing godliness to be a source of gain.

For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, not a striker, not greedy of base gain;

feed the flock of God which is among you, overseeing it, not by constraint, but willingly; nor yet for base gain, but of a ready mind;

Woe to them, because they went in the way of Cain, and rushed on in the error of Balsam for hire, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah!

With

For, not as having followed after cunningly-devised stories, did we make known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but as having been made spectators of His majesty.

For neither, at any time, did we use a word of flattery, as ye know, nor a semblance of covetousness, God is witness;

Make

and to those selling doves, He said, "Take these things hence! make not My Father's house a house of merchandise!"

For we are not as the many, making merchandise of the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

"And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her; because no one buys their merchandise any more;