God's judgement on false teaching
1IN the past there were also false prophets among the people, just as you also will have false teachers among you. They will introduce their destructive views, disowning the very Master who redeemed them, and bringing swift destruction on their own heads.
2They will gain many adherents to their dissolute practices, through whom the way of truth will be brought into disrepute.
3In their greed for money they will trade on your credulity with sheer fabrications. But judgement has long been in preparation for them; destruction waits for them with unsleeping eyes.
4God did not spare the angels who sinned, but consigned them to the dark pits of hell, where they are held for judgement.
5Nor did he spare the world in ancient times (except for Noah, who proclaimed righteousness, and was preserved with seven others), but brought the flood upon that world with its godless people.
6God reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes, condemning them to total ruin as an object-lesson for the ungodly in future days.
7But he rescued Lot, a good man distressed by the dissolute habits of the lawless society in which he lived;
8day after day every sight and sound of their evil ways tortured that good man's heart.
9The Lord knows how to rescue the godly from their trials, and to keep the wicked under punishment until the day of judgement.
10Above all he will punish those who follow their abominable lusts and flout authority. Reckless and headstrong, they are not afraid to insult celestial beings,
11whereas angels, for all their superior strength and power, employ no insults in seeking judgement against them before the Lord.
12These men are like brute beasts, mere creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed. They pour abuse upon things they do not understand; they will perish like the beasts,
13suffering hurt for the hurt they have inflicted. To carouse in broad daylight is their idea of pleasure; while they sit with you at table they are an ugly blot on your company, because they revel in their deceits.
14They have eyes for nothing but loose women, eyes never resting from sin. They lure the unstable to their ruin; experts in mercenary greed, God's curse is on them!
15They have abandoned the straight road and gone astray. They have followed in the steps of Balaam son of Bosor, who eagerly accepted payment for doing wrong,
16but had his offence brought home to him when a dumb beast spoke with a human voice and checked the prophet's madness.
17These men are springs that give no water, mists driven by a storm; the place reserved for them is blackest darkness.
18They utter empty bombast; they use sensual lusts and debauchery as a bait to catch people who have only just begun to escape from their pagan associates.
19They promise them freedom, but are themselves slaves of corruption; for people are the slaves of whatever has mastered them.
20If they escaped the world's defilements through coming to know our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and entangled themselves in them again, and were mastered by them, their last state would be worse than the first.
21Better for them never to have known the right way, than, having known it, to turn back and abandon the sacred commandment entrusted to them!
22In their case the proverb has proved true: “The dog returns to its vomit,” and “The washed sow wallows in the mud again.”
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