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Lascivious doings (aselgeiais). Associative instrumental ease after exakolouthēsousin (future active, for which verb see 2Pe 1:16). See 1Pe 4:3 for this word.
By reason of whom (di' hous). “Because of whom” (accusative case of relative, referring to polloi, many). Autōn (their) refers to pseudodidaskaloi (false teachers) while polloi to their deluded followers. See Rom 2:23. for a picture of such conduct by Jews (quotation from Isa 52:5, with blasphēmeō used as here with di' humas, because of you).
The way of truth (hē hodos tēs alētheias). Hodos (way) occurs often in N.T. for Christianity (Act 9:2; Act 16:17; Act 18:25; Act 22:4; Act 24:14). This phrase is in Gen 24:48 as “the right road,” and that is what Peter means here. So Psa 119:30. See again 2Pe 2:15, 2Pe 2:21.