2 Peter 2:14
bHaving eyes full of 4adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
ὀφθαλμοὺς ἔχοντες μεστοὺς μοιχαλίδος καὶ ἀκαταπαύστους ἁμαρτίας, δελεάζοντες ψυχὰς ἀστηρίκτους, καρδίαν γεγυμνασμένην πλεονεξίαις ἔχοντες, κατάρας τέκνα·
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Jeremiah 5:8 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.
Matthew 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
Jude 1:11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
Jude 1:18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
Micah 3:11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
2 Peter 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
2 Timothy 3:6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
4:
Gr. an adulteress.
he mentions the eyes, both because they let in the objects of lust into the heart, Job 31:1 Mat 5:28, and because the signs of lust in the heart appear especially in the eyes, Gen 39:7 Pro 6:25.
full of an adulteress, which either may be a Hebraism, the concrete being put for the abstract, as drunken for drunkenness, and thirsty for thirst, Deu 29:19; or it may be a proverbial expression of the wretchedness of such men’s hearts, when they still carried an adulteress in their eyes.
never satisfied with looking upon, or still looking about for, such objects as might inflame their lusts; or still seeking with wanton looks to entice others to folly.
either alluring them by their wantonness to embrace their false doctrines, promising them pleasures and carnal liberties, 2Pe 2:18; or enticing them to lewdness, by instilling false doctrines into them, which tend to licentiousness.
those that were not well grounded in the faith and doctrine of holiness, who might therefore easily be drawn aside.
a heart wholly intent upon getting gain, accustomed to it, and skilful in it.
the word is in the plural number, to show that the seducers had several arts and ways of exercising their covetousness.
Greek, children of the curse. It may be taken either actively, for such as were causes of a curse, brought a curse with them; or passively, for such as were worthy of a curse, or obnoxious to it; as children of wrath, Eph 2:3.