Many will follow their immoral† ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Peter 2:2 in context
2 Peter 2:1–5
1
But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
2
Selected verse
Many will follow their immoral† ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.
3
In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
5
and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly,
Source notes
Notes from World English Bible Updated
- TR reads “destructive” instead of “immoral”
Continue with 2 Peter 2
Read the complete chapter in World English Bible Updated.
Open 2 Peter 2