2 Peter 2

2But ^athere were false prophets also among ^bthe people, even as ^cthere shall be false teachers among you, who ^dprivily shall bring in damnable ^eheresies, even ^fdenying ^gthe Lord ^hthat bought them, and ⁱbring upon themselves swift destruction. ²And many shall follow their ^||pernicious ways; by reason of whom ^jthe way of truth ^kshall be evil spoken of. ³And ^lthrough covetousness shall they ^mwith feigned words ⁿmake merchandise of you: ^owhose judgment now ^pof a long time lingereth not, and ⁱtheir damnation ^qslumbereth not. ⁴For if God spared not ^rthe angels ^sthat sinned, but ^tcast them down to hell, and delivered them into ^uchains of darkness, to be ^rvreserved unto judgment; ⁵And ^wspared not the old world, but ^xsaved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, ^ybringing in ^zthe flood upon ^athe world of the ungodly; ⁶And ^bturning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with ^can overthrow, ^dmaking them an ^eensample unto those that after should ^flive ungodly; ⁷And ^gdelivered ^hjust Lot, vexed with the ⁱfilthy ^kconversation of ^lthe wicked: ⁸(For that ^hrighteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, ^mvexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) ⁹ⁿThe Lord knoweth how to deliver ^othe godly out of temptations, and ^pto reserve the unjust unto ^qthe day of judgment to be punished: ¹⁰But chiefly them ^rthat walk ^safter the flesh in the lust of ^tuncleanness, and despise ^||government. Presumptuous are they, ^uselfwilled, they are not afraid to ^wspeak evil of dignities. ¹¹Whereas ^xangels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation ^||against them before the Lord. ¹²But these, ^yas natural brute beasts, ^zmade to be taken and destroyed, ^yaspeak evil of the things that they understand not; and ^yshall utterly perish in their own ^bcorruption; ¹³And shall receive ^cthe reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure ^dto riot in the day time. ^eSpots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings ^fwhile ^gthey feast with you; ¹⁴Having eyes full of ^†adultery, and ^hthat cannot cease from sin; ⁱbeguiling ^kunstable souls: an heart they have ^lexercised with ^mcovetous practices; ⁿcursed children: ¹⁵Which have forsaken ^othe right way, and are gone astray, following the way of ^pBalaam the son of Bosor, who loved ^cthe wages of unrighteousness; ¹⁶But was rebuked for his iniquity: ^qthe dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet. ¹⁷These are wells ^rswithout water, ^rclouds that are carried with a tempest; ^tto whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. ¹⁸For when ^uthey speak great swelling words of vanity, they ⁱallure through the lusts of the flesh, through ^vmuch wantonness, ^wthose that were ^||xclean escaped from them who live in error. ¹⁹While they promise them ^yliberty, they themselves are ^zthe servants of ^bcorruption: for ^zof whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. ²⁰For if after they ^whave escaped the ^apollutions of the world ^bthrough the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again ^centangled therein, and overcome, ^dthe latter end is worse with them than the beginning. ²¹For ^eit had been better for them not ^fto have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, ^gto turn from ^hthe holy commandment delivered unto them. ²²But it is happened unto them according to the true ⁱproverb, ^kThe dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her ^lwallowing in the mire.