Scripture Blog

This weblog is my personal online scripture journal. I try to read the scriptures each morning as I exercise on my cross-trainer. It has a great impact on my life and my testimony of the Savior and his restored church. The journal is really for my own benefit but I have set it up as a web log in hopes to benefit anyone else that may be interested. "For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost..." 1 Nephi 10:19

Tuesday, November 01, 2011

2 Peter 2

As Peter addressed the saints of his day, I couldn't help but compare the current events of our day writing -

"...there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of." (New Testament | 2 Peter 2:1 - 2)

"...chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled [arrogant], they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities." (New Testament | 2 Peter 2:10)

"...these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption..." (New Testament | 2 Peter 2:12)

"...they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you..." (New Testament | 2 Peter 2:13)

"Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices..." (New Testament | 2 Peter 2:14)

"For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption..." (New Testament | 2 Peter 2:18 - 19)

"...they willingly are ignorant of..." (New Testament | 2 Peter 3:5)

"Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts..." (New Testament | 2 Peter 3:3)

Know this, of that which is corrupt -

"...the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up." (New Testament | 2 Peter 3:10)

"...seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." (New Testament | 2 Peter 3:17 - 18)