Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.

They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Bezer, who loved the wages of wickedness.

It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them.

Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives

He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.