Context for 2 Peter 2:18 -
They are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while they feast with you, having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children. 2 Peter 2:14
The “enticing” came through another person who was defiled with unclean spirits.
Deception and enticing can come directly by unclean spirits or by unclean spirits through other people.
Jesus warned about becoming defiled though others; what comes out of the heart of others can indeed enter out heart and cause us to become defiled, and thus weakened to sin.
Paul says it this way - This is one of many 911 warning scriptures;
I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.
1 Corinthians 5:9-11
- But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.
This is how so many Churches have immorality spread through them.
JLB
