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# They speak with vain arrogance
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They use impressive but meaningless words.
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# Through the lusts of the flesh, through sensuality, they entice people
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"They appeal to people's fleshly lusts and desire for sensuality. This is how they entice people"
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# people who are trying to escape from those who live in error
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This phrase refers to people who recently became believers. The phrase "those who live in error" refers to unbelievers who still live in sin. Alternate translation: "people who try to live rightly, instead of living sinfully as they used to and as other people do" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])
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# people who are trying to escape
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Peter speaks of people who live sinfully as if they are slaves to sin who need to be released from their captivity. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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