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1 But there were indeed false prophets among the people of old, as there will be also among you false teachers, who will privately introduce pernicious heresies, denying even the Lord that bought them, and bringing upon themselves swift destruction, 2 And many will follow their pernicious tenets, on whose account the way of truth will be reproached: 3 and by artful speeches they will make sale of you for gain. Whose judgement is long since hastening, and their destruction doth not slumber. 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 judgement; and if He spared not the old world, 5 (but preserved Noah an eighth person, a preacher of righteousness,) bringing a deluge upon the world of the ungodly; 6 and reducing the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha to ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those that should afterwards be impious; 7 and delivered righteous Lot grieved at the lewd conversation of the wicked: 8 (for that good man by seeing and hearing their crimes, when he dwelt among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day with their 9 iniquitous deeds) then the Lord knoweth how to deliver the pious from temptation, and to reserve the wicked to the day of judgement to be punished: 2 Peter 2:1-9, Worsley New Testament. Public domain.
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