2Pe 2:13 | TNotes | STEP | 2:13 They delight in deception even as they eat with you in your fellowship meals: Cp. Jude 1:12 . Christians often ate fellowship meals together in celebration of the Lord (see Acts 2:46 ; 6:1 ). The false teachers were using these mealtimes as opportunities to deceive true believers. Some manuscripts read They delight (or revel, or carouse ) in their fellowship meals as they eat with you. If this reading is correct, they were using the fellowship meals for self-indulgence (cp. 1 Cor 11:20-22 ).

bJude 1:12►

cActs 2:46►

e1 Cor 11:20-22►

‏ 2 Peter 2:13

2:13 ^a They delight in deception even as they eat with you in your fellowship meals: Cp. Jude 1:12 ^b. Christians often ate fellowship meals together in celebration of the Lord (see Acts 2:46 ^c; 6:1 ^d). The false teachers were using these mealtimes as opportunities to deceive true believers. Some manuscripts read They delight (or revel, or carouse) in their fellowship meals as they eat with you. If this reading is correct, they were using the fellowship meals for self-indulgence (cp. 1 Cor 11:20-22 ^e).