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2 Peter

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1 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. 2 And many shall fol­low their per­ni­cious ways; by rea­son of whom the way of truth shall be evil spo­ken of. 3 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. 4 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; 5 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; 6 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; 7 And de­liv­ered just Lot, vexed with the filthy con­ver­sa­tion of the wicked: 8 (For that righ­teous man dwelling among them, in see­ing and hear­ing, vexed his righ­teous soul from day to day with their un­law­ful deeds;) 9 The Lord knoweth how to de­liv­er the god­ly out of temp­ta­tions, and to re­serve the un­just unto the day of judg­ment to be pun­ished: 10 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. 11 Where­as an­gels, which are greater in pow­er and might, bring not rail­ing ac­cu­sa­tion against them be­fore the Lord. 12 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; 13 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; 14 Hav­ing eyes full of adul­tery, and that can­not cease from sin; be­guil­ing un­sta­ble souls: an heart they have ex­er­cised with cov­etous prac­tices; cursed chil­dren: 15 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; 16 But was re­buked for his in­iq­ui­ty: the dumb ass speak­ing with man's voice for­bad the mad­ness of the prophet. 17 These are wells with­out wa­ter, clouds that are car­ried with a tem­pest; to whom the mist of dark­ness is re­served for ev­er. 18 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. 19 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. 20 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. 21 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. 22 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.