False Prophets And Teachers
2 Peter 2 KJV
1 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.
2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3 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.
4 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;
5 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;
6 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;
7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
9 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 uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
12 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;
13 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;
14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
15 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;
16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
18 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.
19 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.
20 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.
21 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.
22 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.
Jesus Among The Teachers Elijah And The Prophets Warnings Concerning Apostate Teachers Parenthetic: How The Little Children May Know False Teachers Apostate Teachers Described Prophets He Is Falsely Accused By Her Of Slander, False Witness, And Partiality Punishment Of A False Witness In Their Misery God Sends Them To Their False Gods Ziba, By Presents And False Suggestions, Obtains His Master's Inheritance Elijah, Reproving Ahab, By Fire From Heaven Convinces Baal's Prophets Ahab, Seduced By False Prophets, By Michaiah's Word, Is Slain At Ramoth Gilead Young Prophets, Hardly Obtaining Leave To Seek Elijah, Cannot Find Him Elisha, Allowing The Young Prophets To Enlarge Dwellings, Floats An Axhead Ahab, Seduced By False Prophets, According To The Word Of Micaiah, Is Slain There Zedekiah Succeeding, Reigns Ill, Despite The Prophets, And Rebels Against Nebuchadnezzar He Obtains By False Accusations A Decree Of The King To Put The Jews To Death False Prophets Are No Excuse For Them Against False Prophets Mockers Of The True Prophets Jeremiah, Reproving The Jews' Disobedience To The Prophets, He Exhorts Them To Yield, And Not To Believe The False Prophets Hananiah Prophesies Falsely The Return Of The Vessels, And Of Jeconiah Jeremiah, Wishing It To Be True, Shows That The Event Will Declare The True Prophets Not To Believe The Dreams Of Their Prophets He Shows The Fearful End Of Ahab And Zedekiah, Two False Prophets Jeremiah, By A False Suggestion, Is Put Into The Dungeon Of Malchiah Reproof Of False Prophets They Are Exhorted To Repent, For Fear Of Judgments, By Means Of Seduced Prophets General Corruption Of Prophets, Priests, Princes, And The People God's Judgment Upon The Mockers Of The Prophets Israel's Falsehood And Judah's Fidelity Falsehood Of The Prophets False Security Of Them Both From Idolatry, And False Prophecy Falsely Accused And Impiously Condemned Of The Council Questions In The Temple With The Teachers, Falsely Accused Of Blasphemy Against The Law The Temple Reprehending Their Rebellion, And Murdering Of Christ, Whom The Prophets Foretold Warns Them Of False Teachers, Lest Their False Teachers Should Charge Him With Vain Glory, Against The False Apostles, Who Disgraced The Weakness Of His Person And Bodily Presence, To Be Generous To Their Teachers, He Warns Them To Beware Of The False Teachers Not To Have Fellowship With Newfangled Teachers Mouths Of Evil Teachers To Be Stopped We Ought To Be Patient In Afflictions, After The Example Of The Prophets, And Job Assures Them Of The Authenticity Of The Gospel, By The Eyewitness Of The Apostles The Prophets Peter Warns Of False Teachers, Showing The Impiety And Punishment Both Of Them And Their Followers
