2Peter:2

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* But there arose false prophets also among the people , as among you (note :){+}(:note ) also there will be false teachers , who will secretly bring in destructive heresies , denying even the Master that bought them , bringing on themselves swift destruction . * And many will follow their sexual immorality ; by reason of whom the way of the truth will be evil spoken of . * And in greed they will with feigned words make merchandise of you (note :){+}(:note ): whose sentence now from of old does not linger , and their destruction does not slumber . * For if God did not spare angels who sinned , but cast them down to Tartarus , and delivered them to chains of darkness , to be reserved to judgment ; * and did not spare the ancient world , but preserved Noah with seven others , a preacher of righteousness , when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly ; * and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow , having made them an example to those who should live ungodly ; * and delivered righteous Lot , very distressed by the sexual immorality of the wicked * (for that righteous man dwelling among them , in seeing and hearing , vexed [his ] righteous soul from day to day with [their ] lawless deeds ): * the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of trial , and to keep the unrighteous under punishment to the day of judgment ; * but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the desire of defilement , and despise dominion . Daring , self-willed , they do not tremble to rail at dignities : * whereas angels , though greater in might and power , do not bring a railing judgment against them from the Lord . * But these , as creatures without reason , born mere animals to be taken and destroyed , railing in matters of which they are ignorant , will in their destroying surely be destroyed , * suffering wrong as the wages of wrongdoing ; [men ] that count it pleasure to revel in the daytime , spots and blemishes , reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you (note :){+}(:note ); * having eyes full of adultery , and that can 't cease from sin ; enticing unstedfast souls ; having a heart exercised in greed ; sons of cursing ; * forsaking the right way , they went astray , having followed the way of Balaam the [son ] of Bosor , who loved the wages of wrongdoing ; * but he was rebuked for his own transgression : a mute donkey spoke with man 's voice and restrained the madness of the prophet . * These are springs without water , and mists driven by a storm ; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved . * For , uttering great swelling [words ] of vanity , they entice in the desires of the flesh , by sexual immorality , those who are just escaping from the ones who live in error ; * promising them liberty , while they themselves are slaves of corruption ; for to whom a man is overcome , to this one he has been made a slave . * For if , after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of Jesus Christ , our Lord and Savior , they are again entangled in it and overcome , the last state has become worse with them than the first . * For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness , than , after knowing it , to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them . * It has happened to them according to the true proverb , The dog turning to his own vomit again , and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire .

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