61:002:001 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.
61:002:002 And many shall follow their pernicious
ways; by reason of whom
the
way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
61:002:003 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.
61:002:004 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;
61:002:005 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;
61:002:006 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;
61:002:007 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the
filthy conversation of
the
wicked:
61:002:008 (For that righteous man dwelling among
them, in seeing and
hearing,
vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their
unlawful
deeds;)
61:002:009 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly
out of temptations,
and
to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be
punished:
61:002:010 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.
61:002:011 Whereas angels, which are greater in power
and might, bring
not
railing accusation against them before the Lord.
61:002:012 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;
61:002:013 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;
61:002:014 Having eyes full of adultery, and that
cannot cease from sin;
beguiling
unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with
covetous
practices; cursed children:
61:002:015 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;


