2Peter:2

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* But there arose false prophets also among the people , as there will be false teachers among you also , who will stealthily bring in destructive factions , even denying the Lord that bought them ; bringing upon themselves swift destruction . * And many will follow their dissolute ways , by reason of whom the way of truth will be evil spoken of ; * and in covetousness will they with feigned words make merchandise of you ; for whom the judgment long ago ordained lingereth not , and their destruction slumbereth not . * For if God spared not angels that sinned , but cast them down to hell , and delivered them over to chains of darkness , to be reserved unto judgment ; * and spared not the old world , but saved Noah with seven others , a preacher of righteousness , when he brought in the flood upon the world of the ungodly ; * and turning into ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah , condemned them to overthrow , making them an example for those who in after time should live ungodly ; * and delivered righteous Lot , distressed by the lewd conduct of the lawless men ; * (for that righteous man dwelling among them , in seeing and hearing tormented his righteous soul from day to day with their lawless deeds ;) * the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation , and to reserve the unrighteous under punishment to the day of judgment ; * but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness , and despise dominion . Presumptuous , self –willed , they are not afraid to rail at dignities ; * whereas angels , who are greater in strength and power , bring not against them a railing accusation ; * but these , as brute beasts , by nature born to be taken and destroyed , railing at things which they understand not , shall even perish in their own corruption , * receiving the wages of unrighteousness . Counting it pleasure to riot in the day –time , spots and blemishes , reveling in their deceits while they feast with you , * having eyes full of an adulteress , and that cannot cease from sin , alluring unstable souls , having a heart exercised in covetousness , children of a curse , * they have forsaken the right way , and have gone astray , following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor , who loved the wages of unrighteousness , * but was rebuked for his iniquity ; the dumb ass , speaking with man ’s voice , restrained the madness of the prophet . * These are wells without water , and mists driven by a tempest ; for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved . * For speaking great swelling words of vanity , they allure in the lusts of the flesh , by dissolute ways , such as were in some measure escaping from those who live in error ; * promising them liberty , while they themselves are slaves of corruption ; for by what a man is overcome , by the same is he also brought into bondage . * For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ , they are again entangled therein and overcome , the last state is worse with them than the first . * For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness , than , after having known it , to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them . * It hath happened to them according to the true proverb , The dog returned to his own vomit ; and , The sow that was washed , to her wallowing in the mire .

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