2 Peter 2:13
in 2 Peter 2The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you.
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ASV
suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; men that count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceivings while they feast with you;
KJV
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;
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This verse in 2 Peter 2
Commentary
13 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Spots--in themselves. blemishes--disgraces: bringing blame (so the Greek) on the Church and on Christianity itself. sporting themselves--Greek, "luxuriating." with--Greek, "in." deceivings--or else passively, "deceits": luxuries gotten by deceit.
This site's exposition
These men are like irrational animals
on 2 Peter 2:12-13
These men are like irrational animals, aloga zoa, who blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They carouse in broad daylight and are blots and blemishes, spiloi kai momoi, as they feast with you. The danger sits inside the church's own meals.
This site's exposition
blots and blemishes
The teachers sat at the church's own shared meals. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown read the phrase as men who bring blame on the church and on the faith itself. John Wesley says they make a jest of those they deceive, even while deceiving their own souls.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
But like irrational brute creatures, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming in matters they do not understand, they will perish in their own corruption, receiving the wages of unrighteousness, as they count it pleasure to party in the daytime. And indeed the angels in …
Spots and blemishes party in their errors against you, having eyes full of adultery, and who cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. "Spots and blemishes." The order is taken as follows: Spots and blemishes (Σπίλοι καὶ μῶμοι) are the heart of those who are …
The Medieval Church3 voices
"They count it pleasure to revel in daily luxury," that is, in daily gratification of the throat they place their true goal, their true and beloved prudence and pleasure. The order of the following discourse is as follows: shameless and defilers; "their heart is trained …
Peter means that after they went astray they were able to lead others astray after them, but that in the end they will have to pay the price of their wickedness.
Receiving the reward of injustice. The reward of injustice is the punishment he speaks of, which the works of injustice deserve, especially in those who, while they themselves are slaves to the corruption of the flesh, nonetheless blaspheme the conduct of those who live chastely, …
5 more voices on this verse
The Medieval Church1 voice
Thinking of the delights of the day as impurities and stains. Pleasure is taken both in a good and an evil sense. In the good sense, it is called the paradise of delight, and as it is sung in the psalm: And they shall drink …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
They count it pleasure to riot in the day time - They glory in doing it in the face of the sun. They are spots in themselves, blemishes to any church. Sporting themselves with their own deceivings - Making a jest of those whom they deceive and even jesting while they are deceiving their own souls.
And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness,....
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
They that count it pleasure to riot in the day time - Most sinners, in order to practice their abominable pleasures, seek the secrecy of the night; but these, bidding defiance to all decorum, decency, and shame, take the open day, and thus proclaim their impurities to the sun. Spots - and blemishes - They are a disgrace to the Christian name. Sporting themselves - Forming opinions which give license to sin, and then acting on those opinions; and thus rioting in their own deceits. With their own deceivings - Εν ταις απαταις. But instead of this, AB, and almost all the versions and several of the fathers, have εν ταις αγαπαις, in your love feasts, which is probably the true reading. While they feast with you - It appears they held a kind of communion with the Church, and attended sacred festivals, which they desecrated with their own unhallowed opinions and conduct.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness - The appropriate recompense of their wickedness in the future world. Such people do not always receive the due recompense of their deeds in the present life; and as it is a great and immutable principle that all will be treated, under the government of God, as they deserve, or that justice will be rendered to every rational being, it follows that there must be punishment in the future state.
The words behind it
19 Greek wordsEvery Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Greek | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ἀδικούμενοι | adikoumenoi | suffering | G91 → | |
| μισθὸν | misthon | [as the] wage | G3408 → | |
| ἀδικίας. | adikias | of unrighteousness. | G93 → | |
| ἡδονὴν | hedonen | [as] pleasure | G2237 → | |
| ἡγούμενοι | hegoumenoi | esteeming | G2233 → | 28 times |
| τὴν | ten | <the> | G3588 → | 19766 times |
| ἐν | en | in | G1722 → | 2738 times |
| ἡμέρᾳ | hemera | daytime | G2250 → | 389 times |
| τρυφήν, | truphen | carousal, | G5172 → | |
| σπίλοι | spiloi | blots | G4696 → | |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 → | 9120 times |
| μῶμοι, | momoi | blemishes, | G3470 → | |
| ἐντρυφῶντες | entruphontes | reveling | G1792 → | |
| ἐν | en | in | G1722 → | 2738 times |
| ταῖς | tais | the | G3588 → | 19766 times |
| ἀπάταις | apatais | deceptions | G539 → | |
| αὐτῶν | auton | of them | G846 → | 5565 times |
| συνευωχούμενοι | suneuochoumenoi | feasting with | G4910 → | |
| ὑμῖν, | humin | you, | G4771 → | 2973 times |
ἀδικούμενοιsuffering
adikoumenoiG91 →
μισθὸν[as the] wage
misthonG3408 →
ἀδικίας.of unrighteousness.
adikiasG93 →
ἡδονὴν[as] pleasure
hedonenG2237 →
ἡγούμενοιesteeming
hegoumenoiG2233 →28 times
τὴν<the>
tenG3588 →19766 times
ἐνin
enG1722 →2738 times
ἡμέρᾳdaytime
hemeraG2250 →389 times
τρυφήν,carousal,
truphenG5172 →
σπίλοιblots
spiloiG4696 →
καὶand
kaiG2532 →9120 times
μῶμοι,blemishes,
momoiG3470 →
ἐντρυφῶντεςreveling
entruphontesG1792 →
ἐνin
enG1722 →2738 times
ταῖςthe
taisG3588 →19766 times
ἀπάταιςdeceptions
apataisG539 →
αὐτῶνof them
autonG846 →5565 times
συνευωχούμενοιfeasting with
suneuochoumenoiG4910 →
ὑμῖν,you,
huminG4771 →2973 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Romans 13:13Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
it leads to
- Galatians 5:21
and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
- Ephesians 5:18
Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
- Galatians 5:21
Through
Ephesians 5:27and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.
it leads to
- Colossians 1:22
But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—
- Hebrews 9:14
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!
- 1 Peter 1:19
but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.
- 2 Corinthians 11:2
I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
- Colossians 1:22
Through
Philippians 3:19Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
it leads to
- Romans 16:18
For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
- Romans 8:5–7
Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
- Romans 16:18
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Andreas of Caesarea, CATENA; Bede, Commentary on the Catholic Epistles; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Oecumenius, Commentary on 2 Peter and Theophylact of Ohrid, Commentary on 2 Peter.