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2 Peter Chapter 2
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2But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false
teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying
the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their
condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been
sleeping.
4For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them
into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people,
but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and
made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of
lawless men
8(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his
righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the
unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and
despise authority.
11Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings; yet even
angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous
accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute
beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts
they too will perish.
13They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of
pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in
their pleasures while they feast with you.
14With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they
are experts in greed--an accursed brood!
15They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of
Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.
16But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey--a beast without speech--who
spoke with a man's voice and restrained the prophet's madness.
17These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest
darkness is reserved for them.
18For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of
sinful human nature, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in
error.
19They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity--for a
man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
20If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the
end than they were at the beginning.
21It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness,
than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was
passed on to them.
22Of them the proverbs are true: "A dog returns to its vomit," and, "A sow that is
washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud."