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They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">(for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard);</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, they are not afraid to heap abuse on celestial beings;<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not heap abuse on such beings when bringing judgment on them from the Lord.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But these people blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like unreasoning animals, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like animals they too will perish.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed--an accursed brood!<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Bezer, who loved the wages of wickedness.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey--an animal without speech--who spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet's madness.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">These people are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm. For them the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity--for "people are slaves to whatever has mastered them."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">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.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Of them the proverbs are true: "A dog returns to its vomit," and, "A sow that is washed returns to her wallowing in the mud."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><a href="//niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="//biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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