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But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in [a]destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of. And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not. For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but [b]cast them down to [c]hell, and committed them to [d]pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, [e]a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, having made them an example unto those that should live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, sore distressed by the lascivious life of the wicked (for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, [f]vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their lawless deeds): the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgment;

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  1. 2 Peter 2:1 Or, sects of perdition
  2. 2 Peter 2:4 Or, cast them into dungeons
  3. 2 Peter 2:4 Greek Tartarus.
  4. 2 Peter 2:4 Some ancient authorities read chains. Compare Wisd. 17:17.
  5. 2 Peter 2:5 Greek a herald.
  6. 2 Peter 2:8 Greek tormented.

13 suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; men that count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, revelling in their [a]deceivings while they feast with you; 14 having eyes full of [b]adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of cursing; 15 forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of [c]Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing; 16 but he was rebuked for his own transgression: a dumb ass spake with man’s voice and stayed the madness of the prophet.

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  1. 2 Peter 2:13 Some ancient authorities read love-feasts. Compare Jude 12.
  2. 2 Peter 2:14 Greek an adulteress.
  3. 2 Peter 2:15 Many ancient authorities read Bosor.