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From of old their judgement has been working itself out, and their destruction has not been slumbering.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For God did not spare angels when they had sinned, but hurling them down to Tartarus consigned them to caves of darkness, keeping them in readiness for judgement. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And He did not spare the ancient world, although He preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a deluge on the world of the ungodly. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He reduced to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and condemned them to overthrow, making them an example to people who might in future be living godless lives.</p> <p class="hdg">The Godly will Be Delivered</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But when righteous Lot was sore distressed by the gross misconduct of immoral men He rescued him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Since all this is so, the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from temptation, and on the other hand how to keep the unrighteous under punishment in readiness for the Day of Judgement,</p> <p class="hdg">Profane and Blasphemous Seducers</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and especially those who are abandoned to sensuality—craving, as they do, for polluted things, and scorning control. Fool-hardy and self-willed, they do not tremble when speaking evil of glorious beings; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>while angels, though greater than they in might and power, do not bring any insulting accusation against such in the presence of the Lord. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But these men, like brute beasts, created (with their natural instincts) <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>being doomed to receive a requital for their guilt. They reckon it pleasure to feast daintily in broad daylight. They are spots and blemishes, while feeding luxuriously at their love-feasts, and banqueting with you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Their very eyes are full of adultery—being eyes which never cease from sin. These men set traps to catch unstedfast souls, their own hearts being well trained in greed. They are fore-doomed to God's curse! <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Forsaking the straight road, they have gone astray, having eagerly followed in the steps of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was bent on securing the wages of unrighteousness. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But he was rebuked for his transgression: a dumb ass spoke with a human voice and checked the madness of the Prophet.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>These people are wells without water, mists driven along by a storm, men for whom the dense darkness has been reserved. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For, while they pour out their frivolous and arrogant talk, they use earthly cravings—every kind of immorality—as a bait to entrap men who are just escaping from the influence of those who live in error. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And they promise them freedom, although they are themselves the slaves of what is corrupt. For a man is the slave of any one by whom he has been worsted in fight. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For if, after escaping from the pollutions of the world through a full knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, people are once more entangled in these pollutions and are overcome, their last state has become worse than their first. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For it would have been better for them not to have fully known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandments in which they were instructed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Their case is that described in the true proverb, "A dog returns to what he has vomited," and also in the other proverb, "The sow has washed itself and now goes back to roll in its filth."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Weymouth New testament<br /><br /><a href="//intbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy INT Bible<br />© 2012, Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_peter/1.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Peter 1"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Peter 1" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_peter/3.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Peter 3"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Peter 3" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/2_peter/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>