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2 Peter 2:12–22

12 But these persons, like irrational animals born only with natural instincts for capture and killing, blaspheming about thingsf they do not understand, in their destruction will also be destroyed, 13 being harmed as the wages of unrighteousness. Considering reveling in the daytime a pleasure, they are stains and blemishes, carousing in their deceitful pleasures when they* feast together with you, 14 having eyes full of desire for an adulteress and unceasing from sin, enticing unstable persons, and* having hearts trained for greediness. Accursed children! 15 By* leaving the straight path, they have gone astray, because they* followed the way of Balaam the son of Bosor,g who loved the wages of unrighteousness, 16 but received a rebuke for his own lawlessness: a speechless donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet’s madnessh.

17 These people are waterless springs and mists driven by a hurricane, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved. 18 For by speaking high-sounding but empty wordsi, they entice with desires of the flesh and with licentiousness those who are scarcely escaping from those who live in error, 19 promising them freedom although they* themselves are slaves of depravity. For to whatever someone succumbs, by this he is alsoj enslaved. 20 For if, after they* have escaped from the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lordk and Savior Jesus Christ, and they are again entangled in these things and succumb to them, the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them. 22 The statement of the true proverb has happened to them, “A dog returns to its own vomit,”l and “A sow, after* washing herself, returns* to wallowing in the mud.”m

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