2 Peter 2:1-16 ▼

1 But there were also false prophets among the people, as also among you? there will be false teachers who will stealthily introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master having bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

2 And many will follow after their sensuality, through whom the way of the truth will be blasphemed.

3 And through covetousness they will exploit you? with fabricated words, for whom the judgment of long ago is not idle, and their destruction does not slumber.

4 For if God did not spare the angels having sinned, but having cast them down to Tartarus in chains of gloomy darkness, He delivered them, being kept for judgment;

5 and He did not spare the ancient world, but He preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, one of eight, having brought the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

6 and He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, having reduced them to ashes, having set an example of what is coming on the ungodly;

7 and He delivered righteous Lot, being distressed by the conduct in sensuality of the lawless

8 (for that righteous man dwelling, among them, day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul in seeing and hearing their lawless works)—

9 then the Lord knows to deliver the devout out of trial and to keep the unrighteous being punished unto the day of judgment,

10 and especially those going after the flesh in the passion of defilement and despising authority. Bold, self-willed, they are not afraid of blaspheming glorious ones,

11 whereas angels, being greater in strength and power, do not bring against them a blasphemous judgment before the Lord.

12 But these, as irrational animals having been born naturally for capture and destruction, blaspheming in what they are ignorant of, in their destruction also will be destroyed,

13 suffering harm as the wage of unrighteousness; esteeming luxury in daytime as pleasure; spots and blemishes, luxuriating in their deceptions, feasting with you?;

14 having eyes full of adultery, and unceasing from sin; enticing unstable souls; having a heart having been trained in covetousness—children of a curse!

15 Having forsaken the straight way, they went astray, having followed after the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wage of unrighteousness.

16 But he had reproof for his own violation of the law by a mute donkey; having spoken in a man’s voice, it restrained the madness of the prophet.