2 Peter 2:18 — Community Reflections

2 PETER 2:18 — KING JAMES VERSION 1 1

“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.”

For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error — their boasts (huperogka matalologian) are loud precisely because substantive. The sensual passions (epithumiai sarkos) appeal to those newly converted and vulnerable. Those barely escaping (ontos oligōs apopheugosin) are recent converts whose roots are shallow.

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