Scofield Reference Bible Notes
2 Peter 2

2Pe 2:1 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.

false teachers

Mat 24:5, 24; Act 20:29-30; 1Ti 4:1.

damnable

i.e. destructive.

denying the Lord that bought them

Mat 20:28.

Lord

Master.

2Pe 2:3 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.

damnation

i.e. destruction.

2Pe 2:4 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;

spared not the angels

Judgments (the seven). Jde 1:6, 14-15. (2Sa 7:14; Rev 22:12).

2Pe 2:5 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;

world

kosmos (Mat 4:8) = mankind.

2Pe 2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

to deliver the godly

Psa 34:15, 18.

temptations

Temptation. Rev 3:10. (Gen 3:1; Jas 1:14.)

day of judgment

Day of Judgment. 2Pe 3:7. (Mat 10:15; Rev 20:11).

2Pe 2:12 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;

natural brute beasts

Jde 1:10. natural animals without reason.

2Pe 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

sin

Sin. Scofield Romans 3:23, note.

2Pe 2:15 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;

Balaam

Num 22:5.

Balaam (see Scofield Numbers 22:5, refs.) was the typical hireling prophet, anxious only to make a market of his gift. This is the "way" of Balaam. See the "error" of Balaam, Scofield Jude 1:11, note; and the "doctrine" of Balaam, Scofield Revelation 2:14, note.

2Pe 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

clouds

Jde 1:12.

2Pe 2:18 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.

great swelling words of vanity

Apostasy. 2Pe 2:1-3, 12-18; 1Jo 4:1-5. (Luk 18:8; 2Ti 3:1.)

flesh

Flesh. 2Pe 2:10-11, 18; 1Jo 2:16. (Jhn 1:13; Jde 1:23.)

2Pe 2:19 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.

of whom a man is overcome

Jhn 8:34; Rom 6:16.

2Pe 2:20 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.

world

kosmos = world-system. 1Jo 2:15-17. (Jhn 7:7; Scofield Rev 13:3-8, note).

Saviour

Scofield Romans 1:16, note.

they are again entangled

Luk 11:26; Heb 6:4-6.

2Pe 2:21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they haved known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

better for them not to have known

Mat 11:23; Luk 12:47-48.

they haved known it, to turn

knowing it, to turn back.

2Pe 2:22 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.

The dog is turned to his own vomit

Pro 26:11.