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<span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and <i>if</i> He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing <i>them</i> to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly <i>lives</i> thereafter; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and <i>if</i> He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>(for by what he saw and heard <i>that</i> righteous man, while living among them, felt <i>his</i> righteous soul tormented day after day by <i>their</i> lawless deeds), <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><i>then</i> the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and especially those who go after the flesh in <i>its</i> corrupt lust and despise authority. <p class="reg"> Daring, self-willed, they do not tremble when they blaspheme <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>glorious ones, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>whereas angels who are greater in strength and power do not bring a reviling judgment against them before the Lord. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, blaspheming where they have no knowledge, will in <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>suffering unrighteousness as the wages of <i>their</i> unrighteousness, considering it a pleasure to revel in the daytime—<i>they are</i> stains and blemishes, reveling in their <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>deceptions, as they feast with you, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>having eyes full of adultery and unceasing sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed—<i>they are</i> accursed children. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the <i>son</i> of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>but he received a rebuke for his own lawlessness, <i>for</i> a mute donkey, speaking out with a voice of a man, restrained the madness of the prophet. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>These are springs without water and mists driven by a storm, for whom the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>black darkness has been kept. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For speaking out arrogant <i>words</i> of vanity, they entice by sensual lusts of the flesh, those who barely escape from the ones who conducted themselves in error, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For if they are overcome, having <i>both</i> escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and having again been entangled in them, <i>then</i> the last state has become worse for them than the first. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment handed on to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span><i>message</i> of the true proverb has happened to them, “A DOG RETURNS TO ITS OWN VOMIT,” and, “A sow, after washing, <i>returns</i> to wallowing in the mire.”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">4</span> Gr <i>tartarus</i><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> Or <i>herald</i><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> Or <i>temptation</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Angels<br><span class="fnverse">12</span> Lit <i>their destruction also</i><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> One early ms <i>love feasts</i><br><span class="fnverse">17</span> Lit <i>blackness of darkness</i><br><span class="fnverse">22</span> Lit <i>thing</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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