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receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;
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Sin's Inevitable Paycheck
Commentators highlight a wordplay in the original Greek: the false teachers will be paid back with harm as the 'wage' for the harm they have done. Their pursuit of unrighteous gain will ironically result in their own suffering. This serves as a stark reminder of God's ultimate and perfect justice, where sin carries its own destructive consequence.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness. This refers to the appropriate recompense for their wickedness in the future world.
Suffering wrong (αδικουμενο). Present middle or passive participle of αδικεω to do wrong. So Aleph B P, but A C K L have κομιουμεν…
19th Century
Anglican
And shall receive. This literally means about to receive (as they are). (Compare to 1 Peter 1:9; [Re…
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“They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done” preserves a word play in Greek that is quite characteristic of Peter’s style in this…
16th Century
Protestant
Count it pleasure: as if he had said, “They place their happiness in their present enjoyments.” We know that humans excel brute animals in…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness Due punishment, both in body and soul, for all their injustice to Go…
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Impure seducers and their abandoned followers give themselves up to their own fleshly minds. Refusing to bring every thought to the obedience of Ch…
