Conduct of Teachers

 

"But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities" 2 Pet. 2:10

 

          Walk in vs. 10 is the first key expression and clearly de­notes the conduct of an individual. It means literally to walk around and includes the daily routine with all the activities and events that compose it, including a destination. Since this is a walk according to the flesh, that is, the sinful nature dominating it at every point, it is not surprising to read the commentary of the fol­lowing vss. Being dominated by the flesh, these teachers pursue a course of lustfulness, despicableness, presumption, willfulness, blasphemy, brutishness, riotousness, deceptive­ness, covetousness, and cursedness.