1But there were also false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you also, who will bring in _destructive heresies_ , even denying the Master who bought them, [thus] bringing on themselves swift destruction.
2And many will follow their licentious ways, because of whom the way of truth will be reviled.
3And in greediness they will exploit you with false words, whose condemnation [from] long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
4For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but held [them] captive in Tartarus with chains of darkness [and] handed [them] over to be kept for judgment,
5and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a proclaimer of righteousness, _and seven others_ [when he] brought a flood on the world of the ungodly,
6and condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes, having appointed [them] [as] an example for those who are going to be ungodly,
7and rescued righteous Lot, worn down by the way of life of lawless persons in licentiousness
8(for that righteous man, [as he] lived among them day after day, was tormenting [his] righteous soul by the lawless deeds [he was] seeing and hearing),
9[then] the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to reserve the unrighteous to be punished at the day of judgment,
10and especially those who go after the flesh in defiling lust and who despise authority. Bold [and] arrogant, they do not tremble in awe [as they] blaspheme majestic beings,
11whereas angels, who are greater in strength and power, do not bring against them a demeaning judgment from the Lord.
12But these persons, like irrational animals born [only with] natural [instincts] for capture and killing, blaspheming _about things_ they do not understand, in their destruction will also be destroyed,
13being harmed [as the] wages of unrighteousness. Considering reveling in the daytime a pleasure, [they are] stains and blemishes, carousing in their deceitful pleasures [when they] feast together with you,
14having eyes full of [desire for] an adulteress and unceasing from sin, enticing unstable persons, [and] having hearts trained for greediness. Accursed children!
15[By] leaving the straight path, they have gone astray, [because they] followed the way of Balaam the [son of] Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,
16but received a rebuke for his own lawlessness: a speechless donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained _the prophet’s madness_ .
17These [people] are waterless springs and mists driven by a hurricane, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved.
18_For by speaking high-sounding but empty words_ , they entice with desires of the flesh [and] with licentiousness those who are scarcely escaping from those who live in error,
19promising them freedom [although they] themselves are slaves of depravity. For to whatever someone succumbs, by this he is enslaved.
20For if, [after they] have escaped from the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and they are again entangled in these [things] [and] succumb to [them], the last [state] has become worse for them than the first.
21For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than having known [it], to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them.
22The [statement] of the true proverb has happened to them, "A dog returns to its own vomit," and "A sow, [after] washing herself, [returns] to wallowing in the mud."
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