2 Peter 2:12–18

Depravity of False Teachers

¹²But these, ⁱlike natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption, ^13jand will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure ^kto ⁴carouse in the daytime. ^lThey are spots and blemishes, ⁵carousing in their own deceptions while ^mthey feast with you, ¹⁴having eyes full of ⁶adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. ⁿThey have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children. ¹⁵They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of ^oBalaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; ¹⁶but he was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man’s voice restrained the madness of the prophet.

^17pThese are wells without water, ⁷clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness ⁸forever.

Deceptions of False Teachers

¹⁸For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who ⁹have actually escaped from those who live in error.