BG - New Testament

Chapter 2

False teachers among the Saints are damned—Lustful Saints will perish in their own corruption.

1. But there were

false prophets also 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.

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2. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of

truth shall be evil spoken of.

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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.

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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;

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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;

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6. And turning the cities of

Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an

ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

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7. And delivered just

Lot,

vexed with the

filthy conversation of the wicked:

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8. (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing,

vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

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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:

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10. But chiefly them that

walk after the flesh in the

lust of

uncleanness, and despise

government.

Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

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11. Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.

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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;

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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;

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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:

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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;

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16. But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb

ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

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17. These are

wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the

mist of

darkness is reserved for ever.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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