2Pe 2:19-20 | TNotes | STEP | 2:19 One of the great lures of false teaching through the centuries has been the promise of freedom from authority, but such freedom is illusory (Rom 6:16 ). The false teachers, while reveling in their freedom from authority (see 2 Pet 2:10 ), were in fact slaves to sin and corruption .

bRom 6:16►

c2 Pet 2:10►

‏ 2 Peter 2:19-20

2:19 ^a One of the great lures of false teaching through the centuries has been the promise of freedom from authority, but such freedom is illusory (Rom 6:16 ^b). The false teachers, while reveling in their freedom from authority (see 2 Pet 2:10 ^c), were in fact slaves to sin and corruption.
2:20 ^d they are worse off than before: The false teachers or their followers had known the truth, but their deliberate rejection of that truth put them in a far worse situation than when they ignorantly lived in sin.