¹But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall be also among you false teachers, who shall bring in by the bye destructive heresies, and deny the master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction; ²and many shall follow their dissolute ways, through whom the way of the truth shall be blasphemed.

³And through covetousness, with well-turned words, will they make merchandise of you: for whom judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction slumbers not. ⁴For if God spared not the angels who had sinned, but having cast them down to the deepest pit of gloom has delivered them to chains of darkness to be kept for judgment; ⁵and spared not the old world, but preserved Noe, the eighth, a preacher of righteousness, having brought in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; ⁶and having reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha to ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, setting them as an example to those that should afterwards live an ungodly life;

⁷and saved righteous Lot, distressed with the abandoned conversation of the godless, ⁸(for the righteous man through seeing and hearing, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul day after day with their lawless works,) ⁹the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of trial, and to keep the unjust to the day of judgment to be punished;

¹⁰and specially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise lordship. Bold are they, self-willed; they do not fear speaking injuriously of dignities:

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