2 Peter 2:17

"These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackest of darkness forever."

Context:  Leaders who don't tell the whole truth.

The people who lead others with partial truths or just plain lies have a future that they should not look forward to at all.  They are worthless, controlled by another that isn't them, and face a depressive death that they can't imagine.

Simply put, "don't lie."

If you truly love those around you and want to be the good person our God wants us all to be, don't lie.  Don't exaggerate.  Don't stretch the truth.  Don't tell white lies even if you are "protecting" or "being nice."  don't say things thinking that the outcome justifies the means.  Just don't.

If you do, you are evil and God will have to punish you.  His Law is unchanging and He doesn't lie.

2 Peter 2:15, 16

"They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; but he was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man's voice restrained the madness of the prophet."

Context:  We have been reading about false teachers or leaders who are not speaking the truth.

People who don't tell the truth and are leaders via false means are not on God's path nor are they good people.

There was a prophet who was supposed to be a follower of God.  Yet he was tempted by worldly riches to say things that weren't true for personal gain.  This was wrong of him.  When a person tells lies (white lies or big lies or harmful lies alike) then they are compared with someone who has gone mad.  Become insane.  Not mentally stable.

You might say it is a slippery slope, but I truly believe those who lie for personal gain are mad.  Those who lie, no matter if they are stretching the truth or outright wrong, are in need of more than an attitude adjustment.

When people of such importance (or self-importance) lead others without speaking the entire truth, it takes something very shocking to get their attention.  They then have a choice (again as you always have a choice) to either make things right (and the cost might be high) or to continue as you were.  If you continue as you were, then you are purposefully choosing a sinful path.