2 Peter 2:12–18

¹²But these people, like irrational animals—creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed—speak blasphemies about things they don’t understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed, ¹³suffering harm as the payment for unrighteousness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, delighting in their deceptions ^jas they feast with you. ¹⁴They have eyes full of adultery ^kand are always looking for sin. They seduce unstable people and have hearts trained in greed. Children under a curse! ^l15They have gone astray by abandoning the straight path ^mand have followed the path of Balaam, ⁿthe son of Bosor, ^owho loved the wages of unrighteousness ^p16but received a rebuke for his transgression: A donkey that could not talk spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s irrationality. ^q

¹⁷These people are springs without water, mists driven by a whirlwind. The gloom of darkness has been reserved for them. ^r18For by uttering boastful, empty words, ^sthey seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped ^tfrom those who live in error.