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The Snare of False Liberty
Commentators unanimously explain that the "liberty" offered by the false teachers is a dangerous deception. It is not the true freedom found in Christ, but a license for sin and freedom from moral restraint. This promise of carnal liberty is a snare designed to appeal to fleshly desires, ultimately leading people away from God's righteous path.
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2 Peter
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Peter 2:19
18th Century
Theologian
While they promise them liberty. True religion always promises and produces liberty (); but the particular liberty which these persons see…
AT Robertson
On 2 Peter 2:19
Liberty (ελευθεριαν). Promising "personal liberty," that is license, after the fashion of advocates of liquor today, not the freed…
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Peter 2:19
19th Century
Bishop
Promise them liberty.—A specimen of the great swelling words—loud, high-sounding talk about liberty. The doctrines of Sim…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 2 Peter 2:19
They promise “freedom,” perhaps from any law or restraint of the flesh. Paul ran into similar error—“Everything is permissible for me” ([Reference …
John Calvin
On 2 Peter 2:19
16th Century
Theologian
While they promise them liberty. He shows their inconsistency: they falsely promised liberty while they themselves served sin and were in …
John Gill
On 2 Peter 2:19
17th Century
Pastor
While they promise them liberty
Not Christian liberty, which lies in a freedom from sin, its dominion, guilt, and co…
Matthew Henry
On 2 Peter 2:17–22
17th Century
Minister
The word of truth is the water of life, which refreshes the souls that receive it; but deceivers spread and promote error, and are shown to be empt…