2:13
The false teachers here were openly engaging in debauched behaviour. Pagans indulged in similar things, but they did so under the cover of darkness. When people who claim to be God’s people go wrong they tend to be even worse than the world. “While they feast with you”. Some well attested manuscripts have “love feasts”. These people were corrupting what should have been a celebration of what the Lord has done. These people did harm, and they would receive due recompense from the Lord for the harm they have done. The consistent message of the Bible is that evil behaviour will receive its just deserts.
2:14
The phrase translated “eyes full of adultery” is actually “eyes full of an adulteress woman”. Sin defines their life. Lust can take over a person, dominating all their thoughts and imaginations, and then they devote all their physical and mental effort to satisfying that lust. “They seduce the unstable”. Such people are very dangerous, for they will prey on the weak, causing great harm. That is why the church must take firm action. Ultimately they are an “accursed brood”. Literally it is “children of a curse”, they are under God’s curse, which means they will receive God’s judgement for their sin.
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