2 Peter 2


2 Peter 2 is the second chapter of the Second Epistle of Peter in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The author identifies himself as "Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ" and the epistle is traditionally attributed to Peter the Apostle, but there are charges that it is a work of Peter's followers between 60-90 CE.

Text

The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 22 verses.

Old Testament references

There is an obvious relationship between the texts of 2 Peter and the Epistle of Jude. Comparing the Greek text portions of 2 Peter 2:1–3:3 to Jude 4–18 results in 80 words in common and 7 words of substituted synonyms.
The shared passages are:
2 PeterJude
1:53
1:125
2:14
2:46
2:67
2:10–118–9
2:1210
2:13–1711–13
3:2-317-18
3:1424
3:1825

The danger and condemnation of false prophets (2:1–10a)

"False prophets" are dangerous due to three reasons:
The activities of the "false prophets" among the people in the Old Testament period are listed in ; ; ;, ;.
The dangerous influence of the false prophets are emphasized by more fully describing their true nature: insolent, licentious, immoral and greedy.
They ought to be condemned for the following three reasons:
The false prophets/false teachers offer freedom from the obligation to serve Christ and to grow in Christ, yet, in doing so, bringing the people, and also themselves, into 'the bondage of sin all over again'.

Verse 22

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