2 Peter 2

¹But there were also false-prophets in the people, as also in you there shall be lying masters which shall bring in sects of perdition, and deny him that hath bought them, the Lord: bringing upon themselves speedy perdition.

²And many shall follow their riotousnesses, by whom the way of truth shall be blasphemed.

³And in avarice shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. Unto whom the judgement now long since ceaseth not: and their perdition slumbereth not.

⁴For if God spared not Angels sinning: but with the ropes of Hell being drawn down into Hell delivered them to be tormented, that they should be reserved unto judgement:

⁵and he spared not the original world, but kept the eight, Noe, the preacher of justice, bringing in the deluge upon the world of the impious.

⁶And bringing the cities of the Sodomites & of the Gomorrheites into ashes, he damned them with subversion, putting an example of them that shall do impiously:

⁷and delivered just Lot oppressed by the injury and luxurious conversation of the abominable men.

⁸For in sight and hearing he was just: dwelling with them who from day to day vexed the just soul with unjust works.

⁹Our Lord knoweth to deliver the godly from tentation, but to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgement to be tormented:

¹⁰and especially them which walk after the flesh in concupiscence of uncleanness, and contemn dominion, bold, self-pleasers: they fear not to bring in sects, blaspheming.

¹¹Whereas Angels being greater in strength and power, bear not the execrable judgement against them.

¹²But these men as unreasonable beasts, naturally tending to the snare and into destruction, in those things which they know not, blaspheming, shall perish in their corruption,

¹³receiving the reward of injustice, esteeming for a pleasure the delights of a day: coinquinations and spots, flowing in delicacies, in their feastings rioting with you,

¹⁴having eyes full of adultery and incessant sin: alluring unstable souls, having their heart exercised with avarice, the children of malediction:

¹⁵leaving the right way they have erred, having followed the way of Balaam of Bosor, which loved the reward of iniquity,

¹⁶but had a check of his madness, the dumb beast under the yoke, speaking with man's voice, prohibited the foolishness of the prophet.

¹⁷These are fountains without water, and clouds, tossed with whirl-winds, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved.

¹⁸For, speaking the proud things of vanity, they allure in the desires of fleshly riotousness, those that escape a little, which converse in error,

¹⁹promising them liberty, whereas themselves are the slaves of corruption. For wherewith a man is overcome, of that he is the slave also.

²⁰For if flying from the coinquinations of the world in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they again entangled with the same be overcome: the later things are become unto them worse than the former.

²¹For it was better for them not to know the way of justice, than after the knowledge, to turn back from that holy commandment which was delivered to them.

²²For, that of the true proverb is chanced to them, The dog returned to his vomit: and, The sow washed into her wallowing in the mire.