2 Pedro 2:1-8

1 El peligro de los falsos maestros
En Israel también hubo falsos profetas, tal como habrá falsos maestros entre ustedes. Ellos les enseñarán con astucia herejías destructivas y hasta negarán al Señor, quien los compró. Esto provocará su propia destrucción repentina.

2 Habrá muchos que seguirán sus malas enseñanzas y su vergonzosa inmoralidad; y por culpa de estos maestros, se hablará mal del camino de la verdad.

3 Llevados por la avaricia, inventarán mentiras ingeniosas para apoderarse del dinero de ustedes; pero Dios los condenó desde hace mucho, y su destrucción no tardará en llegar.

4 Pues Dios ni siquiera perdonó a los ángeles que pecaron, sino que los arrojó al infierno,
dentro de fosas tenebrosas,
donde están encerrados hasta el día del juicio.

5 Dios tampoco perdonó al mundo antiguo, aparte de Noé y a los otros siete miembros de su familia. Noé advirtió al mundo del justo juicio de Dios, y por eso Dios lo protegió cuando destruyó, con un gran diluvio, el mundo de los que vivían sin Dios.

6 Tiempo después, Dios condenó las ciudades de Sodoma y Gomorra, y las redujo a montones de cenizas. Las puso como ejemplo de lo que le sucederá a la gente que vive sin Dios.

7 Sin embargo, Dios también rescató a Lot y lo sacó de Sodoma, porque Lot era un hombre recto que estaba harto de la vergonzosa inmoralidad de la gente perversa que lo rodeaba.

8 Así es, Lot era un hombre recto atormentado en su alma por la perversión que veía y oía a diario.

2 Pedro 2:1-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 PETER 2

This chapter contains a description of false teachers, that were then in Christian churches, as there had been false prophets among the Jews; and they are described by the doctrines, which they privily introduced; in general, damnable heresies; in particular, denying the Lord that bought them; and by their success, having many followers of them in their pernicious ways; and by the sad effects following hereupon; with respect to the way of truth, that was blasphemed; with respect to their hearers, they, through the covetousness of these false teachers, were made merchandise of; and with respect to themselves, swift and sure destruction would be brought upon them, 2Pe 2:1-3, which is illustrated and confirmed by the instances of punishment in the angels, the men of the old world, and the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, 2Pe 2:4-8 and whereas, in these instances, notice is taken of the deliverance of some righteous persons, as Noah and Lot, when wicked men were destroyed; the apostle draws this conclusion from the whole, that the Lord knows both how to deliver the saints out of afflictions, and to reserve wicked men until the day of judgment, then to be punished, 2Pe 2:9, especially such shall be then punished, who are described by their impure course of lift, their contempt of civil government, and their presumption and selfwill, 2Pe 1:10 which sins of theirs are aggravated by the different conduct of angels, superior to them; and by their being like brute beasts, as ignorant as they, and even below them; whose punishment will be to perish in their corruption, as the just reward of their unrighteousness, since they are open in sin, take pleasure in it, and sport themselves with it, and are spots and blemishes in Christian societies, 2Pe 2:11-13 and these, who are no other than the false teachers before spoken of, are further described by their adulterous eyes, which cannot cease from sin; by their beguiling unstable souls; by the covetous practices their hearts were exercised with; by their just desert, cursed children; by the course they steer, forsaking the right way, going astray from it, and following the way of Balaam in his covetousness, and other wicked practices, for which he was reproved by his ass; and by various metaphors, which express the emptiness of these persons, and which also point at their destruction, and describe their boasts and brags, and the influence they have, through their lasciviousness and uncleanness, on some persons, who have been outwardly reformed, 2Pe 2:14-18 and this they obtain over them in a very stupid and senseless way, by promising them liberty, when through being overcome by them, and drawn into sin, they were brought into bondage, and become servants of corruption; and so their case is worse than it was before their reformation, and profession of religion; and better it would have been not to have had the knowledge they had, than after it to turn from the paths of truth and holiness, which is illustrated by a true Scripture proverb, which expresses the filthy nature of sin, the character of these men, and their irrecoverable state and condition, 2Pe 2:19-22.