A true repented person no longer has the desires of the world (flesh) but ceases from doing sin. They don’t desire the lusts from this world but only the desire of Yahuah (1 Peter 4:1-4).
Peter says in the following verse of judgment and punishment on those who sin.
2 Peter 2:4 For if Elohim did not spare the messengers (angels) who sinned, but sent them to Tartaros (Sheol – hell), and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be kept for judgment.
Angels who sinned are in chains and will be judged.
2 Peter 2:5 And did not spare the world of old, but preserved Noah, a proclaimer of righteousness, and seven others, bringing in the flood on the world of the wicked.
Sin was punished, showing that punishment is not hold back until judgment day.
2 Peter 2;6 And having reduced to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah condemned them to destruction – having made them an example to those who afterward would live wickedly.
Again, judgment came at a certain time on the sinners. This is an example to us that judgment will come upon us any time sin is out of control.
2 Peter 2:10-13 And especially will He punish those who follow after the filthy lusts of the flesh, and have no respect for authority. Self-willed and arrogant they are and they do not tremble when they blaspheme; where messengers (angels) being greater in strength and power do not bring against them the condemnation of blaspheming. But these men, like the dumb beasts, which by nature are for slaughter and destruction, speak evil of the things that they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption; being about to receive the wages of unrighteousness, as they consider it a delightful thing to revel in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes among you, and sport themselves with their own pleasures feasting along with you in idleness.
These verses speak for themselves – sin will be punished.
Read careful the next 2 verses as it is speaking to those who have come into faith but later turn back to their sinful ways.
2 Peter 2:14-15 Having eyes full of adultery, and never ceasing from sin; seducing unsettled souls; having a heart being filled with covetousness; they are cursed children; who have forsaken the straight path, and have gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness.
2 Peter 2;17 These are fountains without water, clouds driven by a storm, to whom the blackest darkness is kept forever.
They are not bearing any fruit but are only troublemakers.
2 Peter 2:20-21 For if, when they have escaped the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Master and Redeemer, Yahshua the Messiah, they become again entangled in the very same things and are overcome by them, their latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it was better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than having recognized it to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.
The blood of Messiah pays the penalty of our sins, and the Rauch (Holy Spirit) gives us a new spirit to reject sin and walk in newness of life. If we reject this spirit from Yahuah and go back to our old way of life, then we are blaspheming the Rauch (Holy Spirit) and rejecting eternal life.
Those who know the truth but turn away from it, would have been better that you did not know the truth as you will see punishment.
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