2 Peter 2:9–17

9 athen the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from 1temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the bday of judgment,

10 and especially those who 1aindulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and bdespise authority.

Daring, cself-willed, they do not tremble when they brevile angelic 2majesties,

11 awhereas angels who are greater in might and power do not bring a reviling judgment against them before the Lord.

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

13 suffering wrong as athe wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to brevel in the cdaytime. They are stains and blemishes, breveling in their 1deceptions, as they dcarouse with you,

14 having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, aenticing bunstable souls, having a heart trained in cgreed, daccursed children;

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

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

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