2 Peter 2 (TRV)

From Textus Receptus

• 1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

• 2 And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.

• 3 And by covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.

• 4 Because if God did not spare not the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

• 5 and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

• 6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with to destruction, making them an ensample to those who afterward would live ungodly;

• 7 and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed with the filthy conduct of the wicked

• 8 (because that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds),

• 9 then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust for the day of judgment to be punished,

• 10 and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries,

• 11 whereas angels, who are greater in power and might, do not bring a reviling accusation against them before the Lord.

• 12 But these, like natural brute beasts, made to be captured and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption,

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• 13 And will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots 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.