2 Peter 2:12–18

¹²But these people, like irrational animals—creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed—slander what they do not understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed. ¹³They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are spots and blemishes, delighting in their deceptions^F while they feast with you. ¹⁴They have eyes full of adultery^h that never stop looking for sin. They seduce unstable people and have hearts trained in greed. Children under a curse!^{i 15}They have gone astray by abandoning the straight path^j and have followed the path of Balaam,^k the son of Bosor,^G who loved the wages of wickedness^{l 16}but received a rebuke for his lawlessness: A speechless donkey spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.^m

¹⁷These people are springs without water, mists driven by a storm. The gloom of darkness has been reserved for them.^{n 18}For by uttering boastful, empty words,^o they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped^A from those who live in error.