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Chapter 2
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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. |
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And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason
of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. |
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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. |
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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; |
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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; |
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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; |
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And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation
of the wicked: |
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(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing
and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day
with their unlawful deeds;) |
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The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations,
and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to
be punished: |
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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. |
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Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might,
bring not railing accusation against them before the
Lord. |
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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; |
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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; |
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Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease
from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have
exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: |
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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; |
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But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking
with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet. |
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These are wells without water, clouds that are carried
with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved
for ever. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
