II Peter Chapter II

[He foretelleth them of false teachers, shewing the impiety and punishment of them and their followers...]

BUT there were false prophets 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 Gomorrah 
into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, 
making them an ensemble 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, self-willed; 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, forbade 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.