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AICNT 2PET Chapter 2

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2 But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. 2 Many will follow their {licentiousness},[fn] and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3 In their greed, they will exploit you with fabricated words; for whom the judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but having cast them into Tartarus[fn] with chains of darkness, delivering them to be kept for judgment; 5 and 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; 6 and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, having reduced them to ashes, he condemned them [to destruction],[fn] Setting forth an example [of those who are to be][fn] of the ungodly. 7 And if he rescued righteous Lot, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless 8 (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard.)

9 The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation,[fn] but reserves the unrighteous for the day of judgment to be punished, 10 especially those who follow after the flesh in the desire of defilement and despise authority.

Bold and arrogant, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones. 11 Yet even angels, being greater in strength and power, do not bring a slanderous judgment against them [from the Lord].[fn]

12 But these people, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheme in matters they do not understand, in their destruction they will also be destroyed, 13 {suffering}[fn] harm as the wages of their wrongdoing. They consider it a pleasure to revel in the daytime, blots and blemishes, reveling in their {deceptions}[fn] while they feast with you; 14 having eyes [full][fn] of adultery and insatiable for sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed,[fn] cursed children.

15 Having left the straight path, they have gone astray, following the way of Balaam son of {Bosor},[fn] who loved the wages of unrighteousness. 16 But he received a rebuke for his own transgression; a mute beast, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet's madness.

17 These people are springs without water and {mists}[fn] driven by a storm, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved [[forever]].[fn]

18 For, speaking with inflated vanity, they entice by fleshly desires, with debauchery, those who are truly escaping from those who live in error,

19 Promising them freedom, they themselves are [also][fn] slaves of corruption; for whatever someone is defeated by, to this they are enslaved.

20 If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing {the}[fn] 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.

21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

22 [[But]][fn] Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A pig that is washed goes back to rolling in the mire.”[fn]

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