INTRODUCTION:

(Deuteronomy 4:2 [KJV])
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

(Proverbs 30:5, 6 [KJV])
Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

(Isaiah 28:10 [KJV])
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

(Isaiah 28:13 [KJV])
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

(2 Peter 1:20 [KJV])
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

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(Acts 17:11 [KJV])
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

(1 Thessalonians 2:13 [KJV])
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

Always research for yourself, use all of the context, and never privately interpret!

Introduction/Start of study

2 Peter Chapter 2: FALSE TEACHERS, BACKSLIDERS, AND THOSE THAT FOLLOW THEM

(2 Peter 2:1 [AKJV/PCE])
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

FALSE TEACHERS AMONG THE PEOPLE

(Exodus 32:1 [AKJV/PCE])
And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD. And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.

CHARACTERISTICS OF FALSE PROPHETS/TEACHERS TODAY

The only ways to defeat false teachers and false apostles and false prophets are to know the word, expose them, teach the truth, shed light on darkness, avoid teachers of worldly wisdom completely, with their "degrees", fancy clothes, huge followings, fame, fortune

(2 Peter 2:2 [AKJV/PCE])
And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

(Galatians 1:6-10 [AKJV/PCE])
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

PERNI'CIOUS, a. [L. perniciosus, from pernicies; perneco, to kill; per and nex, necis, death.]


  1. Destructive; having the quality of killing, destroying or injuring; very injurious or mischievous. Food, drink or air may be pernicious to life or health.
  2. Destructive; tending to injure or destroy. Evil examples are pernicious to morals. Intemperance is a pernicious vice.
  3. [L. pernix.] Quick. [Not used.]

(2 Peter 2:3 [AKJV/PCE])
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.

(2 Peter 2:4 [AKJV/PCE])
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

(Jude 1:6 [AKJV/PCE])
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

IF, v.t. It is used as the sign of a condition, or it introduces a conditional sentence. It is a verb, without a specified nominative. In like manner we use grant, admit, suppose. Regularly, if should be followed, as it was formerly, by the substitute or pronoun that, referring to the succeeding sentence or proposition. If that John shall arrive in season, I will send him with a message. But that is now omitted,and the subsequent sentence, proposition or affirmation may be considered as the object of the verb. Give John shall arrive; grant,suppose, admit that he shall arrive, I will send him with a message. The sense of if, or give, in this use, is grant, admit, cause to be, let the fact be,let the thing take place. If then is equivalent to grant, allow, admit. "If thou wilt, thou canst make me whole," that is, thou canst make me whole, give the fact, that thou wilt.
If thou art the son of God, command that these stones be made bread. Mat 14.
1. Whether or not.
Uncertain if by augury or chance.

(2 Peter 2:5 [AKJV/PCE])
And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

(2 Peter 2:6 [AKJV/PCE])
And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

(Jude 1:7 [AKJV/PCE])
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

(2 Peter 2:7 [AKJV/PCE])
And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

CONVERSATION, noun
  1.  General course of manners; behavior; deportment; especially as it respects morals. Let your conversation be as becometh the gospel. Philippians 1:27.
    Be ye holy in all manner of conversation 1 Peter 1:15.
  2. A keeping company; familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; commerce in social life.
    Knowledge of men and manners is best acquired by conversation with the best company.
  3. Intimate and familiar acquaintance; as a conversation with books, or other object.
  4. Familiar discourse; general intercourse of sentiments; chat; unrestrained talk; opposed to a formal conference.
    What I mentioned in conversation was not a new thought.
    [This is now the most general use of the word.]

(2 Peter 2:8 [AKJV/PCE])
(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

(2 Peter 2:9 [AKJV/PCE])
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

(2 Peter 2:10 [AKJV/PCE])
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

PRESUMP'TUOUS, a.
  1. Bold and confident to excess; adventuring without reasonable ground of success; hazarding safety on too slight grounds; rash; applied to persons; as a presumptuous commander. There is a class of presumptuous men whom age has not made cautious, nor adversity wise.
  2. Founded on presumption; proceeding from excess of confidence; applied to things; as presumptuous hope.
  3. Arrogant; insolent; as a presumptuous priest.
    Presumptuous pride.
  4. Unduly confident; irreverent with respect to sacred things.
  5. Willful; done with bold design, rash confidence or in violation of known duty; as a presumptuous sin.

GOV'ERNMENT, n. Direction; regulation. These precepts will serve for the government of our conduct.
  1. Control; restraint. Men are apt to neglect the government of their temper and passions.
  2. The exercise of authority; direction and restraint exercised over the actions of men in communities, societies or states; the administration of public affairs, according to established constitution, laws and usages, or by arbitrary edicts.Prussia rose to importance under the government of Frederick II.
  3. The exercise of authority by a parent or householder. Children are often ruined by a neglect of government in parents.
    Let family government be like that of our heavenly Father, mild, gentle and affectionate.
  4. The system of polity in a state; that form of fundamental rules and principles by which a nation or state is governed, or by which individual members of a body politic are to regulate their social actions; a constitution, either written or unwritten, by which the rights and duties of citizens and public officers are prescribed and defined; as a monarchial government, or a republican government.
    Thirteen governments thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without the pretence of miracle or mystery, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind.
  5. An empire, kingdom or state; any territory over which the right of sovereignty is extended.
  6. The right of governing or administering the laws. The king of England vested the government of Ireland in the lord lieutenant.
  7. The persons or council which administer the laws of a kingdom or state; executive power.
  8. Manageableness; compliance; obsequiousness.
  9. Regularity of behavior. [Not in use.]
  10. Management of the limbs or body. [Not in use.]
  11. In grammar, the influence of a word in regard to construction,as when established usage required that one word should cause another to be in a particular case or mode.

(2 Peter 2:11 [AKJV/PCE])
Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.

(2 Peter 2:12 [AKJV/PCE])
But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

(2 Peter 2:13 [AKJV/PCE])
And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

(2 Peter 2:14 [AKJV/PCE])
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

FILLED, BUT NEVER FILLED ENOUGH, WITH EVIL

(Exodus 15:9 [AKJV/PCE])
The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

(Proverbs 14:14 [AKJV/PCE])
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

(Proverbs 27:20 [AKJV/PCE])
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

(Proverbs 30:15-16 [AKJV/PCE])
The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough: The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.

COVETOUSNESS

So, all in all, covetousness is a sin that goes with some of the wickedness of the wors kinds of sins against God and man, such as murder, violence, oppression, extortion, revilers, uncleanness, inordinate affection, idolatry, whoremongering, fornication (sex outside of marriage), concupiscience. Pretty sure that covetousness is an abomination in God's eyes

COVETOUS, a.
  1. Very desirous; eager to obtain; in a good sense; as covetous of wisdom, virtue or learning.
  2. Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess; directed to money or goods, avaricious.
    A bishop must not be covetous. 1 Tim 3.

(Exodus 18:21 [AKJV/PCE])
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

(Psalms 10:3 [AKJV/PCE])
For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

(Psalms 119:36 [AKJV/PCE])
Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.

(Proverbs 28:16 [AKJV/PCE])
The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.

(Isaiah 57:17 [AKJV/PCE])
For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

(Jeremiah 6:13 [AKJV/PCE])
For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

(Jeremiah 8:10 [AKJV/PCE])
Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

(Jeremiah 22:17 [AKJV/PCE])
But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

(Jeremiah 51:13 [AKJV/PCE])
O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.

(Ezekiel 33:31 [AKJV/PCE])
And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.

(Habakkuk 2:9 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

(Mark 7:22 [AKJV/PCE])
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

(Luke 12:15 [AKJV/PCE])
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

(Luke 16:14 [AKJV/PCE])
And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.

(Romans 1:29 [AKJV/PCE])
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

(1 Corinthians 5:10 [AKJV/PCE])
Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

(1 Corinthians 5:11 [AKJV/PCE])
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

(1 Corinthians 6:10 [AKJV/PCE])
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

(2 Corinthians 9:5 [AKJV/PCE])
Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.

(Ephesians 5:3 [AKJV/PCE])
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

(Ephesians 5:5 [AKJV/PCE])
For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

(Colossians 3:5 [AKJV/PCE])
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

(1 Thessalonians 2:5 [AKJV/PCE])
For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:

(1 Timothy 3:3 [AKJV/PCE])
Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

(2 Timothy 3:2 [AKJV/PCE])
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

(Hebrews 13:5 [AKJV/PCE])
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

(2 Peter 2:15-16 [AKJV/PCE])
Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

(2 Peter 2:17 [AKJV/PCE])
These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

WELLS WITHOUT WATER

On this entire planet, after less than a week, no man can live without water. The only way for people to live in an area is by there being available water. With water, even without food, food can be grown, food animals (livestock) can be watered. Without water being available, as in all dry wells, no person can live and must move on. Water is life, physically and spiritually. The Word of God is food, manna, but water is life, in Scripture and on earth. Everything and anything else can be absent except water, because anything and everything else can be taken care of if there is water, including growing, raising up food, roots or hooves or claws or fins and scales.

(Jude 1:12 [AKJV/PCE])
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

LIVING WATER(S)

(Song of Solomon 4:15 [AKJV/PCE])
A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.

(Jeremiah 2:13 [AKJV/PCE])
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

(Jeremiah 17:13 [AKJV/PCE])
O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

(Zechariah 14:8 [AKJV/PCE])
And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.

(John 4:10 [AKJV/PCE])
Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

(John 4:11 [AKJV/PCE])
The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

(John 7:38 [AKJV/PCE])
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

(2 Peter 2:18 [AKJV/PCE])
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

(2 Peter 2:19 [AKJV/PCE])
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

(2 Peter 2:20 [AKJV/PCE])
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

(2 Peter 2:21 [AKJV/PCE])
For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

(1 Corinthians 3:12-15 [AKJV/PCE])
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

(2 Peter 2:22 [AKJV/PCE])
But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

(Proverbs 26:11 [AKJV/PCE])
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

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