2 Peter 2:15-22 ▼

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.

17 These are springs without waters and mists being driven by a storm, for whom the gloom of darkness has been kept.

18 For speaking great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the passions of the flesh to sensuality those barely escaping from those conducting themselves in error,

19 promising to them freedom, themselves being slaves of corruption. For by what anyone has been subdued, by that also he is enslaved.

20 For if, having escaped from the pollutions of the world in the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, now again having been entangled in these they are subdued, the last state has become worse to them than the first.

21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to have turned from the holy commandment having been delivered to them.

22 The thing of the true proverb has happened to them: “A dog having returned to its own vomit,” and, “A sow, having washed, to her rolling place in the mire.”