2 Peter
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1 The apostle foretelleth the appearance of false teachers, the impiety of them and their followers, and the judgments that would overtake them. 7 The godly shall be delivered, as Lot was out of Sodom. 10 The wicked principles and manners of these seducers described. 20 The mischief of relapsing into sin.
BUT athere were false prophets also among the people, even as bthere shall be false teachers among you, who *privily shall bring in damnable cheresies, even ddenying the Lord ethat bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, p*vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
qThe Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to rreserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
uWhereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not *railing accusation 3against them before the Lord.
But these, vas natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish win their own corruption;
xAnd shall receive ythe reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure zto *riot in the day time. aSpots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
dBut was rebuked for his iniquity: ethe dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
For lif 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.
But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, oThe dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.