<p>2:15 <em>Forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing</em>- These false teachers were home grown within the church, rather than having entered in from outside it; they had gone astray, they were once in the right way, having been baptized. The stress is that they had a financial motive in their misbehaviour. The same term &quot;wages of wrongdoing&quot; is used about Judas in Acts 1:18. We marvel that love of money could lead to such awful behaviour, wrong beyond words, of betraying God's Son and destroying His people. But people commit all manner or murder for relatively small sums. This is the power of the love of money. No wonder Scripture warns against it so strongly.</p>