2Peter:2

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* But there were false prophets also among the people , even as there shall be false teachers among you , who privily shall bring in damnable heresies , even denying the Lord that bought them , and bring upon themselves swift destruction . * And many shall follow their pernicious ways ; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of . * And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you : whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not , and their damnation slumbereth not . * For if God spared not the angels that sinned , but cast them down to hell , and delivered them into chains of darkness , to be reserved unto judgment ; * And spared not the old world , but saved Noah the eighth person , a preacher of righteousness , bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly ; * And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow , making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly ; * And delivered just Lot , vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked : * (For that righteous man dwelling among them , in seeing and hearing , vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds ;) * The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations , and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished : * But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness , and despise government . Presumptuous are they , selfwilled , they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities . * Whereas angels , which are greater in power and might , bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord . * But these , as natural brute beasts , made to be taken and destroyed , speak evil of the things that they understand not ; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption ; * And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness , as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time . Spots they are and blemishes , sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you ; * Having eyes full of adultery , and that cannot cease from sin ; beguiling unstable souls : an heart they have exercised with covetous practices ; cursed children : * Which have forsaken the right way , and are 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 forbad the madness of the prophet . * These are wells without water , clouds that are carried with a tempest ; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever . * For when they speak great swelling words of vanity , they allure through the lusts of the flesh , through much wantonness , those that were clean escaped from them who live in error . * While they promise them liberty , they themselves are the servants of corruption : for of whom a man is overcome , of the same is he brought in 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 latter end is worse with them than the beginning . * For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness , than , after they have known it , to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them . * But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb , The dog is turned to his own vomit again ; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire .

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