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   and their destruction does not slumber.   
   4 (Jude 1:6; Mt 25:41; Rev 20:10) For if God did not spare the angels   
   that sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains   
   of darkness to be kept for judgment;   
   5 (2Pe 3:6; Heb 11:7) and if He did not spare the ancient world,   
   but saved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others,   
   when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;   
   6 (Jude 1:7; Nu 26:10; Dt 29:23) and if He condemned the cities of Sodom   
   and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, making them   
   an example to those afterward who would live ungodly lives;   
   7 (Ge 19:16; 19:29; 19:7-8) and if He delivered righteous Lot,   
   who was distressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked   
   8 (Ps 119:136; 119:158) (for that righteous man lived among them,   
   and what he saw and heard of their lawless deeds tormented   
   his righteous soul day after day);   
   9 (1Co 10:13; 2Pe 3:7) then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial,   
   and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the Day of Judgment,   
   10 (Ex 22:28; Jude 1:10) especially those who walk after the flesh in pursuit   
   of unclean desires, and despise authority.   
   They are presumptuous and arrogant, and are not afraid to slander   
   the angelic beings.   
   11 (Jude 1:9) Whereas angels, who are greater in power and might,   
   do not bring slanderous accusations against them before the Lord.   
   12 (Jude 1:10; Jer 12:3) But these people are like irrational animals,   
   born to be captured and destroyed. They speak evil of the things that   
   they do not understand, and in their corruption they will be destroyed.   
   13 (Ro 13:13) They shall receive the wages of unrighteousness. They count it   
   a pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes   
   who revel in their own deception while they carouse together with you.   
   14 (Eph 2:3; 2Pe 2:3) They have eyes full of adultery that cannot cease   
   from sin. They entice unstable souls. Their hearts are trained in greed.   
   They are cursed children!   
   15 (Jude 1:11; Rev 2:14) They have forsaken the right way and have gone   
   astray. They follow the way of Balaam the son of Beor,   
   who loved the wages of wickedness,   
   16 (Nu 22:21-33) but who was rebuked for his iniquity.   
   The mute donkey speaking with a man's voice constrained   
   the madness of the prophet.   
   17 (Jude 1:12-13) These men are wells without water and clouds that are   
   carried by a storm, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved forever.   
   18 (2Pe 1:4; 2:20) For when they speak arrogant words of vanity,   
   they entice by the lusts of the flesh and by depravity those who barely   
   escaped from those who live in error.   
   19 (Jn 8:34; Gal 5:13) Although they promise them freedom, they themselves   
   are slaves of corruption, for by that which a man is overcome, to this   
   he is enslaved.   
   20 (2Pe 1:2; 2:18) For if after they have escaped the defilements of the world   
   through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and they are again   
   entangled in them and are overcome, the latter end is worse for them   
   than the beginning.   
   21 (Eze 18:24; Lk 12:47) For it would have been better for them not to have   
   known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then turn back   
   from the holy commandment that was delivered to them.   
   22 (Pr 26:11) But it has happened to them according to the true proverb,   
   "The dog returns to his own vomit,"(Pr 26:11.)   
   and "the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mud."   
      
   [1] 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.   
   [2] And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way   
   of truth shall be evil spoken of.   
   [3] 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.   
   [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   
   judgment;   
   [5] 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;   
   [6] 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;   
   [7] And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the   
   wicked:   
   [8] (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing,   
   vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)   
   [9] The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to   
   reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:   
   [10] 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.   
   [11] Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing   
   accusation against them before the Lord.   
   [12] 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;   
   [13] 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;   
   [14] Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling   
   unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed   
   children:   
   [15] 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;   
   [16] But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's   
   voice forbad the madness of the prophet.   
   [17] These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest;   
   to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.   
   [18] 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.   
   [19] 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.   
   [20] 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.   
   [21] 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.   
   [22] 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.   
      
   2 Peter 3   
      
   The Promise of the Lord's Coming   
      
   1 This is now, beloved, the second epistle I am writing to you, in which   
   I am stirring up your sincere minds by way of reminder,   
   2 (Lk 1:70; Jude 1:17) that you should remember the words that were spoken   
   previously by the holy prophets and the commandment of our Lord and Saviour   
   spoken through us, the apostles.   
   3 (Jude 1:18; 2Pe 2:10; Isa 28:14) Know this first, that there shall come   
   scoffers in the last days who walk after their own lusts,   
   4 (Jer 17:15; Mal 2:17) and say, "Where is the promise of His coming?   
      
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