“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.”
And in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their condemnation pronounced long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep — the greed (pleonexia) or insatiable desire for more drives the false teachers to commodify the gospel. Exploit (exapolataomai) suggests selling or trafficking in deception. Yet their condemnation is not future but already pronounced (krisin hēn ekpalai ouk argei), indicating that divine judgment precedes and determines the present deception.
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