2 Peter 2:12–18

¹²But ^athese, like unreasoning animals, ^bborn as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, blaspheming where they have no knowledge, will in ¹the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,

¹³suffering unrighteousness as ^athe wages of their unrighteousness, considering it a pleasure to ^brevel in the ^cdaytime—they are stains and blemishes, ^dreveling in their ¹deceptions, as they ^efeast with you,

¹⁴having eyes full of adultery and unceasing sin, ^aenticing ^bunstable souls, having a heart trained in ^cgreed—they are ^daccursed children.

¹⁵Forsaking ^athe right way, they have gone astray, having followed ^bthe way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved ^cthe wages of unrighteousness,

¹⁶but he received a rebuke for his own lawlessness, ^afor a mute donkey, speaking out with a voice of a man, restrained the madness of the prophet.

¹⁷These are ^asprings without water and mists driven by a storm, ^bfor whom the ¹black darkness has been kept.

¹⁸For speaking out ^aarrogant words of ^bvanity, they ^centice by ^dsensual lusts of the flesh, those who barely ^eescape from the ones who conducted themselves in error,