2Peter:2

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* But prophets who were not true were also among the people of Israel . Also there will be teachers who will not be true among you . They will bring in wrong teaching that leads to death . They will even say that they do not belong to the Master who bought them . And so they will quickly bring themselves to death . * Many people will do the same wrong things they do . And because of them , men will say wrong things about the true way . * Because they are greedy for money , they will trick you with lies . For a long time God has planned to punish them . They will be punished at the right time . * God punished the angels who did wrong . He put them into the darkest part of hell . They must be kept there until the time when they will be judged . * In the days long ago , God punished the world . But he saved Noah who told people what was right . And God saved seven other people . But he made water cover the world full of bad people . * God burned up the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah . He punished them so that no cities were left . He did this to show what would happen to bad people . * But God saved Lot out of the trouble . Lot was a good man . He did not like the wrong way the bad people lived . * That good man lived among the bad people and he saw and heard what they did . Day after day , the bad things they did troubled his heart because he was a good man . * The Lord knows how to save good people out of the trouble that tests them . And he knows how to keep bad people until the day when he will judge them . And they are being punished even now . * Most of all , he will punish people who do the wrong things they want to do and who will not obey the men who rule over them . They are very bold and proud . They do not fear to say wrong things about those who are great , even about the angels . * Angels have more strength and power than they . And yet the angels do not judge them and say wrong things about them to the Lord . * These people are like animals that cannot think . They are like animals that are born to be caught and killed . They say wrong things about things they do not understand . They will die like the animals . * Bad things will happen to them because they have done wrong things . They think it is fun to have a good time during the day . They are like spots and sores . They like to eat and drink at the love feasts with you . They are trying to fool you . * They are always looking for women to have sex with them . They never stop their wrong ways . They fool people whose hearts are not strong to do right . They always want more and more money . Gods curse is on them ! * They have left the right road and have done wrong . They follow the same road that Balaam walked . He was the son of Beor . He loved the pay he would get for doing a wrong thing . * But he was told to stop doing wrong . The animal he was riding talked with a mans voice . It tried to make the prophet stop his foolish way . * These men are like wells with no water in them . They are like fog that is blown away by a strong wind . A very dark place has been kept to put them in . * They say big and foolish things . They fool people who have just left those who live in wrong ways . They fool them by making them want to do wrong things with their bodies . * They promise them that they will be free . But they themselves are slaves of death . A man is a slave of anything that rules over him . * They left the wrong ways of the world because they knew our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ . Then when they went back to the wrong ways again , they were ruled by them . Then they will have more trouble than they had at first . * It would have been better for them if they had never known the right way ! Because they knew the right way , it was very wrong for them to turn from the holy law God gave them . * They show that this saying is true , The dog goes back to eat what his own stomach threw up ! and , A pig that is washed rolls in the mud again !

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