2 Peter 2
2 Peter 2 is the second chapter of the Second Epistle of Peter in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The author identifies himself as "Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ" and the epistle is traditionally attributed to Peter the Apostle, but there are charges that it is a work of Peter's followers between 60-90 CE. Text. The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 22 verses. Textual witnesses. Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are: Relationship with the Epistle of Jude. There  is an obvious relationship between the texts of 2 Peter and the Epistle of Jude. Comparing the Greek text portions of 2 Peter 2:1–3:3 (426 words) to Jude 4–18 (311 words) results in 80 words in common and 7 words of substituted synonyms. The shared passages are: The danger and condemnation of false prophets (2:1–10a). "False prophets" are dangerous due to three reasons: Verse 1. The activities of the "false prophets" (, "") among the "people" in the Old Testament period are listed in ; ; ; , ; . The character of false prophets (2:10b–22). The dangerous influence of the false prophets are emphasized by more fully  describing their true nature: insolent (verses 10–12), licentious (verse 13), immoral (verse 14) and greedy (verses 14b–16). Verse 19. The false prophets/false teachers offer "freedom" from the obligation to serve Christ and to grow in Christ (cf. ), yet, in doing so, bringing the people, and also themselves, into 'the bondage of sin all over again' (cf. and Romans 6). Verse 22. Citing: .