New Testament in a Year – 2 Peter 2

False Teachers and Their Destruction - 2 Peter 2:1-22

Understand It

• What did Peter warn his readers that false prophets would attempt to do? (2:1)
• What did Peter say would happen when people followed false prophets? (2:2)
• What did God do to the angels who had sinned? (2:4)
• Whom did Peter say God protected? (2:5)
• What did God use as an example of what will happen to the ungodly? (2:6)
• What effect did living among immoral people have upon Lot? (2:7-8)
• How did Peter say the Lord would deal with the godly and the unrighteous? (2:9)
• What kind of people are unafraid to slander celestial beings? (2:10-15)
• How did God rebuke Balaam? (2:16)
• What did Peter say was reserved for people who rebel against God? (2:17)
• How did the evil people of whom Peter wrote affect others? (2:18)
• What did such sinful men promise? (2:19)
• To what were sinful people slaves? (2:19)
• How did Peter say a person could escape the corruption of the world? (2:20)
• In what way would it have been better for ungodly people to have never heard of God? Why? (2:21)
• What proverbs did Peter apply to the blatantly ungodly? (2:22)

Apply It

• Beginning today, from what sinful desire will you ask God to help you escape?
• What steps will you take today to ensure that you don’t allow your exercise of freedom to result in your enslavement to sin?
• How will you deal with the effect of living in a sinful world today?