2 Peter 2:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

2 Peter 2:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Having eyes full of adultery - Margin, as in the Greek, “an adulteress;” that is, gazing with desire after such persons. The word “full” is designed to denote that the corrupt passion referred to...
2 Peter 2:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(7) Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: (7) He condemns those men, showing...
2 Peter 2:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The sins of the false teachers are now described licentiousness ( 2 Peter 2:10 ), audacious blasphemy ( 2 Peter 2:10-12 ), open profligacy ( 2 Peter 2:13 ), and covetousness like that of Balaam ( 2 P...
2 Peter 2:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

adultery . an adulteress. that cannot cease . Greek. akatapaustos. Only here. sin . App-128. beguiling . See James 1:14 . unstable . Greek. asteriktos. Only here and 2 Peter 3:16 . s...
2 Peter 2:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

14. Beguiling, or baiting, unstable souls. By the metaphor of baiting he reminds the faithful to beware of their hidden and deceitful arts; for he compares their impostures to hooks...
2 Peter 2:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: Having eyes full of adultery - Μοιχαλιδο...
2 Peter 2:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Having eyes full of adultery,— There is a prodigious strength in the original; it properly signifies their having an adulteress continually before their eyes;— having eyes full of an adulteress. I...
2 Peter 2:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: Full of adultery. B C х moicha...
2 Peter 2:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Warning Against a Threatened Plague of Brutal False Teachers As of old there were false as well as true prophets, so it will be now. This leads the Apostle to speak about the false teachers, who i...
2 Peter 2:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Of adultery . — Literally, of an adulteress. This verse has no counterpart in Jude. That cannot cease from sin. — Literally, that cannot be made to cease from sin. (Comp. attentively 1 Peter...
2 Peter 2:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 24 "BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM" 2 Peter 2:10-16 THE Apostle now pictures in the darkest colors the evil-doing and evil character of those who are bringing into the Churches the...
2 Peter 2:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Dark Way of Animalism 2 Peter 2:12-22 The description of these false teachers is terrific! They are slaves to their brute instincts. They are as abusive as they are ignorant. They destroy a...
2 Peter 2:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Turning to the subject of the perils threatening the Church, two are referred to - false teachers, and a materialization of mind which follows on such teaching. As in old days there were false prophe...
2 Peter 2:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

"The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: (10) But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of unclea...
2 Peter 2:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Having eyes full of adultery ,.... For the seventh command is not only violated by unclean actions, and obscene words, but also by unchaste looks: and so the Jews explain k that precept, "thou shal...
2 Peter 2:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: Ver. 14. Having eyes full of adulter...
2 Peter 2:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

But these False teachers; as natural brute beasts As irrational animals, led merely by their brutish inclinations, several of which, in the present disordered state of the world, seem to be made...
2 Peter 2:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

But the true government of God has been hated and rejected -even by men claiming to be Christian. Peter, a true prophet, has forewarned of this in this chapter; and the day has come of which he has p...
2 Peter 2:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

False Teachers. A. D. 67. 10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncle...
2 Peter 2:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Having eyes; he mentions the eyes, both because they let in the objects of lust into the heart, Job 31:1 Matthew 5:28 , and because the signs of lust in the heart appear especially in the eyes...
2 Peter 2:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter's Indictment Of The False Preachers ( 2 Peter 2:10-19 ). Peter accuses the false teachers, who are in total contrast to Noah and Lot, both of whom had had connections with angelic beings in...
2 Peter 2:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES 2 Peter 2:10 . Despise government .—Dominion. Both self-restraint and restraint of good rules and wise authorities. Those who own no superior. Evil of dignities .—...
2 Peter 2:14 - Scofield Reference Notes

sin Sin ( See Scofield) - ( Romans 3:23 ).
2 Peter 2:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Peter 2:1 . False teachers who bring in damnable heresies. Sects leading to perdition, and to the extreme of punishment. Who were they? They were yet to come, in part; the roots only began as ye...
2 Peter 2:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people; rather, as in the Revised Version, but there arose false prophets also among the people. The transition is s...
2 Peter 2:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A further characterization of the false teachers:
2 Peter 2:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 11:19 ; 1 John 2:16 ; 2 Peter 2:18 ; 2 Peter 2:3 ; 2 Peter 3:16 ; 2 Samuel 11:2-4 ; Colossians 2:18 ; Ephesians 2:3 ; Ephesians 4:14 ; Isaiah 1:16 ; Isaiah 34:5 ; Isaiah 65:...
2 Peter 2:14 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Timely Warnings 2 Peter 2:1-22 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It has been said that "to be forewarned is to be forearmed." If God had not told us the things which would surely come, to pass, we would not...

2 Peter 2:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Peter 2:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

2 Peter 2:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Peter 2:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Peter 2:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

2 Peter 2:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Peter 2:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

2 Peter 2:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Peter 2:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Peter 2:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Peter 2:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Peter 2:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Peter 2:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Peter 2:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Peter 2:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Peter 2:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Peter 2:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Peter 2:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Peter 2:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Peter 2:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Peter 2:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2 Peter 2:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Peter 2:14 - Scofield Reference Notes

2 Peter 2:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Peter 2:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Peter 2:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Peter 2:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Peter 2:14 - Wells of Living Water Commentary