2 Peter 2:18

2 Peter 1:4; 2 Peter 2:20; 2 Thessalonians 2:4; Acts 2:40; Acts 8:9; Daniel 11:36; Daniel 4:30; James 5:5; Jude 1:13; Jude 1:15; Jude 1:16; Psalms 52:1-3; Psalms 73:8; Psalms 73:9; Revelation 13:11; Revelation 13:5; Revelation 13:6; Romans 13:13

Related Commentaries of 2 Peter 2:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity - When they make pretensions to wisdom and learning, or seem to attach great importance to wha...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

For when they speak great (q) swelling [words] of vanity, they (r) allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness, those that were...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Uttering vain words they snare in the lusts of the flesh those who were just escaping (or, had actually escaped) from heathen vices, promising them l...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

great swelling . Greek. huperonkos. Only here and Jude 1:16 . vanity . Greek. mataiotes. See Romans 8:20 . allure . Same as "beguile", 2...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

18. For when they speak great swelling words of vanity. (172) He means that they dazzled the eyes of the simple by high-flown stuff of word...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean es...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For when they speak great swelling words— For, while they utter high swelling words of vanity, they, by the lusts of the flesh, lay a bait for tho...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean es...
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 th...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Through much wantonness] RV 'by lasciviousness.' The repetition of this word points to the character of the false teachers. Repetition of this ki...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Great swelling words of vanity. — Exaggeration, unreality, boastfulness, and emptiness are expressed by this phrase. It carries on the same idea as...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 25 ALTOGETHER BECOME ABOMINABLE 2 Peter 2:17-22 THE Apostle now describes these traitors to the cause of Christ under another aspect....
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 a...
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 suc...
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 th...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For when they speak great swelling [words] of vanity ,.... Marvellous things against the God of gods, great things and blasphemies against God, his...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean es...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

When they speak great swelling words of vanity Propose their vain and false doctrine in a lofty style, or affect sublime strains of language, which...
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 th...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

False Teachers. A. D. 67. 10 But chiefly t...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Great swelling words of vanity; i.e. big words, full of sound, and void of sense, at least of truth. He seems to tax the affected, vain speech of s...
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 o...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from those who l...
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...
Sermon Bible Commentary

2 Peter 2:18 False Theories of our Life. I. There is the epicurean or pleasure theory: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die." Let us see ho...
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 wer...
The Biblical Illustrator

These are wells without water. False teachers I. Their un-profitableness. “Wells without water.” 1. Pastors are like wells-- (1) For cons...
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 pr...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The spiritual slavery of the false teachers and its consequences:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For when they speak great, swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean esca...
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 thin...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

They ensnare in the desires of the flesh — Allowing them to gratify some unholy desire. Those who were before entirely escaped from the spirit, cus...

¹⁸ For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were cleane escaped from them who live in error.

Related Commentaries of 2 Peter 2:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

2 Peter 2:18