2 Peter 2
1. But there were * false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be * false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in * damnable heresies, even denying * the Lord that bought * them, and bring * upon themselves swift destruction.
2. And many shall follow * their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of * .
3. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise * of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth * not, and their damnation slumbereth * not.
4. For if God spared * not the angels that sinned * , but cast them down to hell * , and delivered * them into chains of darkness, to be reserved * unto judgment;
5. And spared * not the old world, but saved * Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in * the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6. And turning * the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes * condemned * them with an overthrow, making * them an ensample unto those that after should * live ungodly * ;
7. And delivered * just Lot,vexed * with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
8. (For that righteous man dwelling * among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed * his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
9. The Lord knoweth * how to deliver * the godly out of temptations, and to reserve * the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished * :
10. But chiefly them that walk * after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise * government.Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid * to speak evil * of dignities.
11. Whereas angels, which are * greater in power and might, bring * not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
12. But these, as natural brute beasts, made * to be taken and destroyed, speak evil * of the things that they understand not * ; and shall utterly perish * in their own corruption;
13. And shall receive * the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count * it pleasure to riot in the day time.Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves * with their own deceivings while they feast * with you;
14. Having * eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin;beguiling * unstable souls: an heart they have * exercised * with covetous practices; cursed children:
15. Which have forsaken * the right way, and are gone astray * , following * the way of Balaam the son of Bosor,who loved * the wages of unrighteousness;
16. But was * rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking * with man's voice forbad * the madness of the prophet.
17. These are * wells without water, clouds that are carried * with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved * for ever.
18. For when they speak * great swelling words of vanity, they allure * through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped * from them who live * in error.
19. While they promise * them liberty,they themselves are * the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome * , of the same is he brought in bondage * .
20. For if after they have escaped * the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are * again entangled * therein, and overcome * , the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
21. For it had been * better for them not to have known * the way of righteousness, than, after they have known * it, to turn * from the holy commandment delivered * unto them.
22. But it is happened * unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned * to his own vomit again * ; and the sow that was washed * to her wallowing in the mire.
