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1BUT even in those days there were false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you today. They will be men who will subtly introduce dangerous heresies. They will thereby deny the Lord who redeemed them, and it will not be long before they bring on themselves their own downfall.

2Many will follow their flagrant immorality and thereby bring discredit on the way of truth.

3In their lust to make converts these men will try to exploit you too with their bogus arguments. But judgment has been for some time hard on their heels and their downfall is inevitable.

4For if God did not spare angels who sinned against him, but banished them to the dark imprisonment of hell till judgment day;

5if he did not spare the ancient world but only saved Noah, the solitary voice that cried out for righteousness, and his seven companions when he brought the flood upon the world in its wickedness;

6and if God reduced the entire cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes, when he sentenced them to destruction as a fearful example to those who wanted to live in defiance of his laws,

7and yet saved Lot the righteous man, in acute mental distress at the filthy lives of the godless

8Lot, remember, was a good man suffering spiritual agonies day after day at what he saw and heard of their lawlessnessthen you may be absolutely certain that the

9Lord knows how to rescue good men surrounded by temptation, and how to reserve his punishment for the wicked until their day comes.

10His judgment is chiefly reserved for those who have indulged all the foulness of their lower natures, and have nothing but contempt for authority. These men are arrogant and presumptuousthey think nothing of scoffing at the glories of the unseen world.

11Yet even angels, who are their superiors in strength and power, do not bring insulting criticisms of such things before the Lord.

12But these men, with no more sense than the unreasoning brute beasts which are born to be caught and killed, scoff at things outside their own experience, and will most certainly be destroyed in their own corruption.

13There wickedness has earned them an evil end and they will be paid in full. These are the men who delight in daylight selfindulgence; they are foul spots and blots, playing their tricks at your very dinnertables.

14Their eyes cannot look at a woman without lust, and they miss no opportunity for sin. They captivate the unstable ones, and their technique of getting what they want is, through long practice, highly developed. They are born under a curse,

15for they have abandoned the right road and wandered off to follow the old trail of Balaam, son of Beor, the man who had no objection to wickedness as long as he was paid for it.

16But he, you remember, was sharply reprimanded for his wickednessby a donkey, of all things, speaking with a human voice to check the prophet's wicked infatuation!

17These men are like wells without a drop of water in them, like the changing shapes of whirling stormclouds, and their fate will be the black night of utter darkness.

18With their highsounding nonsense they use the sensual pull of the lower passions to attract those who were just on the point of cutting loose from their companions in evil.

19They promise them liberty. Liberty!when they themselves are bound hand and foot to utter depravity. For a man is the slave of whatever masters him.

20If men have escaped from the world's contaminations through knowing our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ, and then become entangled and defeated by them all over again, their last position is worse than their first.

21For it would be better for them not to have known the way of goodness at all, than after knowing it to turn their backs on the sacred commandments given to them.

22For them, the old proverbs have come true about the "dog returning to his vomit", and "the sow that had been washed going back to wallow in the muck".


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