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2 Peter 2

The Rise of False Prophets

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But  afalse prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be  bfalse teachers  camong you, who will  dsecretly introduce  edestructive heresies, even  fdenying the  gMaster who  hbought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.

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Many will follow their  asensuality, and because of them  bthe way of the truth will be  cmaligned;

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and in their  agreed they will  bexploit you with  cfalse words;  dtheir judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

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For  aif God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and  bcommitted them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment;

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and did not spare  athe ancient world, but preserved  bNoah, a  1preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a  cflood upon the world of the ungodly;

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and if He  acondemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an  bexample to those who would  clive ungodly lives thereafter;

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and if He  arescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the  bsensual conduct of  cunprincipled men

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(for by what he saw and heard that  arighteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds),

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 athen the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from  1temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the  bday of judgment,

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and especially those who  1 aindulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and  bdespise authority.

Daring,  cself-willed, they do not tremble when they  brevile angelic  2majesties,

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 awhereas angels who are greater in might and power do not bring a reviling judgment against them before the Lord.

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But  athese, like unreasoning animals,  bborn as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in  1the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,

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suffering wrong as  athe wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to  brevel in the  cdaytime. They are stains and blemishes,  breveling in their  1deceptions, as they  dcarouse with you,

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having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin,  aenticing  bunstable souls, having a heart trained in  cgreed,  daccursed children;

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forsaking  athe right way, they have gone astray, having followed  bthe way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved  cthe wages of unrighteousness;

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but he received a rebuke for his own transgression,  afor a mute donkey, speaking with a voice of a man, restrained the madness of the prophet.

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These are  asprings without water and mists driven by a storm,  bfor whom the  1black darkness has been reserved.

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For speaking out  aarrogant words of  bvanity they  centice by fleshly desires, by  dsensuality, those who barely  eescape from the ones who live in error,

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promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for  aby what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved.

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For if, after they have  aescaped the defilements of the world by  bthe knowledge of the  cLord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again  dentangled in them and are overcome,  ethe last state has become worse for them than the first.

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 aFor it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from  bthe holy commandment  chanded on to them.

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 1It has happened to them according to the true proverb, " aA DOG RETURNS TO ITS OWN VOMIT," and, "A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire."



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