2 Peter 2:9-19
9then athe Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, ▼▼Or temptations
and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, 10and especially cthose who indulge ▼▼Greek who go after the flesh
in the lust of defiling passion and edespise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble fas they blaspheme the glorious ones, 11 gwhereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord. 12 hBut these, like irrational animals, icreatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction, 13suffering wrong as jthe wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure kto revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, ▼
▼Some manuscripts love feasts
while mthey feast with you. 14They have eyes full of adultery, ninsatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts otrained in greed. pAccursed children! 15Forsaking the right way, qthey have gone astray. They have followed rthe way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved sgain from wrongdoing, 16but was rebuked for his own transgression; ta speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness. 17 uThese are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm. vFor them the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved. 18For, wspeaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely xescaping from those who live in error. 19They promise them yfreedom, zbut they themselves are slaves ▼
▼Greek bondservants
of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.
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