2PE-2:1  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.

2PE-2:2  And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason

of

whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

2PE-2:3  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.

2PE-2:4  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;

2PE-2:5  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;

2PE-2:6  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;

2PE-2:7  And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy

conversation

of the

wicked:

2PE-2:8  (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing

and

hearing, vexed [his] righteous soul from day to day with [their]

unlawful deeds;)

2PE-2:9  The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of

temptations, and to

reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

2PE-2:10  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.

2PE-2:11  Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might,

bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.

2PE-2:12  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;

2PE-2:13  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;

2PE-2:14  Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease

from

sin;

beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with

covetous

practices;

cursed children:

2PE-2:15  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;

2PE-2:16  But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking

with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

2PE-2:17  These are wells without water, clouds that are carried

with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for

ever.

2PE-2:18  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.

2PE-2:19  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.

2PE-2:20  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.

2PE-2:21  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.

2PE-2:22  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.

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