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2Peter 2
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The Judgment of False Teachers

2But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, and will bring swift destruction on themselves.G1161G1096G5578G2532G1722G2992G2532G5613G2071G5572G1722G5213G3748G3919G684G139G2532G720G1203G59G846G1863G1438G5031G684
2Many will follow their unrestrained ways, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed.G2532G4183G1811G846G684G1223G3739G3598G225G987
3In their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation, [pronounced] long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.G2532G1722G4124G4112G3056G1710G5209G3739G2917G1597G691G3756G2532G846G684G3573G3756
4For if God didn't spare the angels who sinned, but threw them down into Tartarus and delivered them to be kept in chains of darkness until judgment;G1063G1487G2316G5339G3756G32G264G235G5020G3860G4577G2217G5083G1519G2920
5and if He didn't spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others, when He brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;G2532G5339G3756G744G2889G235G5442G3575G3590G2783G1343G1863G2627G2889G765
6and if He reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes and condemned them to ruin, making them an example to those who were going to be ungodly;G2532G5077G4172G4670G2532G1116G5077G2632G2692G5087G5262G3195G764
7and if He rescued righteous Lot, distressed by the unrestrained behavior of the immoralG2532G4506G1342G3091G2669G5259G766G391G1722G113
8(for as he lived among them, that righteous man tormented himself day by day with the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—G1063G1342G1460G1722G846G990G2532G189G928G1342G5590G2250G1537G2250G459G2041
9then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,G2962G1492G4506G2152G1537G3986G1161G5083G94G1519G2250G2920G2849
10especially those who follow the polluting desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold, arrogant people! They do not tremble when they blaspheme the glorious ones;G1161G3122G4198G3694G4561G1722G1939G3394G2532G2706G2963G5113G829G3756G5141G987G1391
11however, angels, who are greater in might and power, do not bring a slanderous charge against them before the Lord.G3699G32G5607G3187G2479G2532G1411G5342G3756G989G2920G2596G846G3844G2962
12But these people, like irrational animals— creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed— speak blasphemies about things they don't understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed,G1161G3778G5613G5446G249G2226G1080G1519G259G2532G5356G987G1722G3739G50G2704G1722G846G5356
13suffering harm as the payment for unrighteousness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, delighting in their deceptions as they feast with you,G2865G3408G93G2233G2237G5172G1722G2250G4696G2532G3470G1792G1722G846G539G4910G5213
14having eyes full of adultery and always looking for sin, seducing unstable people, and with hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!G2192G3788G3324G3428G2532G180G266G1185G793G5590G2588G2192G1128G4124G2671G5043
15By abandoning the straight path, they have gone astray and have followed the path of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,G2641G2117G3598G4105G1811G3598G903G1007G3739G25G3408G93
16but received a rebuke for his transgression: a speechless donkey spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet's madness.G1161G2192G1649G2398G3892G880G5268G5350G1722G444G5456G2967G3913G4396
17These people are springs without water, mists driven by a whirlwind. The gloom of darkness has been reserved for them.G3778G1526G4077G504G3507G1643G5259G2978G3739G2217G4655G5083G1519G165
18For uttering bombastic, empty words, they seduce, by fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped from those who live in error.G1063G5350G5246G3153G1185G1722G1939G4561G766G3689G668G390G1722G4106
19They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, since people are enslaved to whatever defeats them.G1861G846G1657G846G5225G1401G5356G1063G3739G5100G2274G2532G5129G1402
20For if, having escaped the world's impurity through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first.G1063G1487G668G3393G2889G1722G1922G2962G2532G4990G2424G5547G1707G3825G1707G5125G1161G1096G2274G2078G5501G846G4413
21For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.G1063G2258G2909G846G3361G1921G3598G1343G2228G1921G1994G1537G40G1785G3860G846
22It has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to its own vomit, and, "a sow, after washing itself, wallows in the mud."G1161G4819G846G3588G227G3942G2965G1994G1909G2398G1829G1994G2532G5300G3068G1519G2946G1004


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