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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: 2 Peter 2

Chapter 2

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.

there were

Deuteronomy 13:1-3 1 Kings 18:19-22 22:6 Nehemiah 6:12-14 Isaiah 9:15 56:10,11 Jeremiah 14:13-15 23:16,17,25-32 27:14,15 28:15-17 29:8,9,31,32 Jeremiah 37:19 Lamentations 2:14 Ezekiel 13:3-18 Hosea 9:8 Micah 2:11 3:5,11 Zechariah 13:3,4 Matthew 7:15 Luke 6:26 Romans 16:18

even

Matthew 24:5,11,24 Mark 13:22 Luke 21:8 Acts 20:29,30 1 Corinthians 11:19 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 Galatians 4:17 Ephesians 4:14 Colossians 2:8,18 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12 1 Timothy 4:1-3 2 Timothy 3:1-9 4:3 Titus 1:11 1 John 2:18,19,26 4:1 Jude 1:18 Revelation 2:9 13:14

privily

3 Galatians 2:4

damnable

3 Galatians 5:20 Titus 3:10

denying

Matthew 10:33 Luke 12:9 Acts 3:13,14 2 Timothy 2:12,13 Jude 1:4 Revelation 2:13 3:8

bought

Deuteronomy 32:6 Acts 20:28 1 Corinthians 6:20 7:23 Galatians 3:13 Ephesians 1:7 Hebrews 10:29 1 Peter 1:8 Revelation 5:9

and bring

3 Malachi 3:5 Philippians 3:19

And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

many

Matthew 24:10-13,24 Mark 13:22 1 John 2:18,19 Revelation 12:9 13:8,14

pernicious ways

or, lascivious ways, as some copies read. by reason.

Romans 2:24 1 Timothy 5:14 Titus 2:5,8

way

15,21 Psalms 18:21 Isaiah 35:8 Jeremiah 6:16 Matthew 7:14 22:16 Mark 12:14 John 14:6 Acts 13:10 16:17 18:26 19:9 24:14

evil

12 Acts 14:2 1 Peter 2:12 Jude 1:10,15

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.

through

14,15 Isaiah 56:11 Jeremiah 6:13 8:10 Ezekiel 13:19 Micah 3:11 Malachi 1:10 Romans 16:18 2 Corinthians 12:17,18 1 Timothy 3:3,8 6:5 Titus 1:7,11 1 Peter 5:2 Jude 1:11

with

1:16 Psalms 18:44 66:3 81:15 *marg: ; Luke 20:20 22:47 1 Thessalonians 2:5

make

Deuteronomy 24:17 John 2:16 2 Corinthians 2:17 Revelation 18:11-13

whose

1,9 Deuteronomy 32:35 Isaiah 5:19 30:13,14 60:22 Habakkuk 3:3 Luke 18:8 1 Thessalonians 5:3 1 Peter 2:8 Jude 1:4,7,15

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

5 Deuteronomy 29:20 Psalms 78:50 Ezekiel 5:11 7:4,9 Romans 8:32 11:21

the angels

Job 4:18 Luke 10:18 John 8:44 1 John 3:8 Jude 1:6

but

Isaiah 14:12 Matthew 8:29 25:41 Mark 5:7 Luke 8:31 Revelation 12:7-9 20:2,3,10

into

11 Jude 1:6

to be

9 Job 21:30 Jude 1:13

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;

spared

Genesis 6:1-8 Job 22:15,16 Matthew 24:37-39 Luke 17:26,27 Hebrews 11:7

the eighth

Genesis 7:1-24 1 Peter 3:20

a preacher

1 Peter 3:19 Jude 1:14,15

bringing

3:6

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;

turning

Genesis 19:24,25,28 Deuteronomy 29:23 Isaiah 13:19 Jeremiah 50:40 Ezekiel 16:49-56 Hosea 11:8 Amos 4:11 Zephaniah 2:9 Luke 17:28-30 Jude 1:7

making

Numbers 26:10 Deuteronomy 29:23 1 Corinthians 10:11

And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

delivered

Genesis 19:16,22,29 1 Corinthians 10:13

vexed

Genesis 13:13 19:7,8 Psalms 120:5 Jeremiah 9:1-6 23:9

(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

that

Proverbs 25:26 28:12 1 Timothy 1:9 James 5:16

in seeing

Psalms 119:136,139,158 Ezekiel 9:4,6 Malachi 3:15-17

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

knoweth

Job 5:19 Psalms 34:15-19 1 Corinthians 10:13

the godly

Psalms 4:3 12:1 32:6 2 Timothy 3:12 Titus 2:14

and

4 Job 21:30 Proverbs 16:4 Jude 1:14,15

unto

3:7 Romans 2:5 2 Corinthians 5:10,11

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.

that

Romans 8:1,4,5,12,13 2 Corinthians 10:3 Hebrews 13:4

in the

Romans 1:24-27 1 Corinthians 6:9 Ephesians 4:19 5:5 Colossians 3:5 1 Thessalonians 4:7 Jude 1:4,6-8,10,16

despise

Numbers 16:12-15 Deuteronomy 17:12,13 21:20,21 1 Samuel 10:27 2 Samuel 20:1 1 Kings 12:16 Psalms 2:1-5 12:4 Jeremiah 2:31 Luke 19:14 Romans 13:1-5 1 Peter 2:13,14

government

or, dominion. Presumptuous.

Numbers 15:30 Jude 1:8

selfwilled

Genesis 49:6 Titus 1:7

to speak

Exodus 22:28 Ecclesiastes 10:6,7,20 Acts 23:5 Jude 1:8,10

Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.

angels

Psalms 103:20 104:4 Daniel 6:22 2 Thessalonians 1:7 Jude 1:9

against them

Verse 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;

as natural

Psalms 49:10 92:6 94:8 Jeremiah 4:22 5:4 10:8,21 12:3 Ezekiel 21:31 Jude 1:10

perish

19 1:4 Proverbs 14:32 John 8:21 Galatians 6:8

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;

the reward

Isaiah 3:11 Romans 2:8,9 Philippians 3:19 2 Timothy 4:14 Hebrews 2:2,3 Jude 1:12-16 Revelation 18:6

to riot

Romans 13:13 1 Thessalonians 5:7,8 1 Peter 4:4

Spots

Song of Solomon 4:7 Ephesians 5:27 Jude 1:12

while

1 Corinthians 11:20-22

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

eyes

2 Samuel 11:2-4 Job 31:7,9 Proverbs 6:25 Matthew 5:28 1 John 2:16

adultery

Gr. an adulteress. that cannot.

Isaiah 1:16 Jeremiah 13:23 Matthew 12:34 John 5:44

beguiling

18 3:16 Mark 13:22 Romans 16:18 1 Corinthians 11:19 Ephesians 4:14 Colossians 2:18 James 1:8 Revelation 12:9

an heart

3 Jude 1:11

cursed

Isaiah 34:5 65:20 Matthew 25:41 Ephesians 2:3

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;

forsaken

1 Samuel 12:23 1 Kings 18:18 19:10 Ezekiel 9:10 Proverbs 28:4 Hosea 14:8 Acts 13:10

Balaam

Numbers 22:5-7

son of Beor

who.

Numbers 22:18-21,23,28 31:16 Deuteronomy 23:4,5 Micah 6:5 Jude 1:11 Revelation 2:14

wages

Acts 1:18

But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

the dumb

Numbers 22:22-33

the madness

Ecclesiastes 7:25 9:3 Hosea 9:7 Luke 16:11 Acts 26:11,24,25

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

are wells

Job 6:14-17 Jeremiah 14:3 Hosea 6:4 Jude 1:12,13

clouds

Ephesians 4:14

mist

darkness

4 Matthew 8:12 22:13 25:30 Jude 1:6,13

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.

they speak

Psalms 52:1-3 73:8,9 Daniel 4:30 11:36 Acts 8:9 2 Thessalonians 2:4 Jude 1:13,15,16 Revelation 13:5,6,11

great swelling

wantonness

Romans 13:13 James 5:5

that were

20 1:4 Acts 2:40

clean

or, for a little, or, a while, as some read.

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.

they promise

Galatians 5:1,13 1 Peter 2:16

they themselves

John 8:34 Romans 6:12-14,16-22 Titus 3:3

overcome

20 Isaiah 28:1 Jeremiah 23:9 2 Timothy 2:26

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.

after

Matthew 12:43-45 Luke 11:24-26 Hebrews 6:4-8 10:26,27

escaped

18 1:4

through

1:2

the latter

Numbers 24:20 Deuteronomy 32:29 Philippians 3:19

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.

it had

Matthew 11:23,24 Luke 12:47 John 9:41 15:22

the way

Proverbs 12:28 16:31 Matthew 21:32

to turn

Psalms 36:3,4 125:5 Ezekiel 3:20 18:24 23:13 Zephaniah 1:6

holy

Romans 7:12 1 Thessalonians 4:2

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

Proverbs 26:11