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2 Peter 2:1-22 — False Teachers and Their Destruction
2Pet.2.1-22
1But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, and so bringing swift destruction on themselves. 2Many will follow their sensual excesses, and because of them the way of truth will be slandered. 3In greed they will exploit you with fabricated words. Their condemnation has long been at work, and their destruction does not slumber. 4For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness , to be kept for judgment, 5and if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, one of eight, a herald of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon a world of ungodly people, 6and if by reducing the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to destruction , making them an example of what would happen to those who would live ungodly lives, 7and if he rescued righteous Lot, worn down by the sensual conduct of lawless men, 8—for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormenting his righteous soul by what he saw and heard of their lawless deeds— 9then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, 10especially those who go after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they do not tremble as they slander glorious beings. 11whereas angels, though greater in strength and power, do not bring against them a slanderous judgment before the Lord . 12But these are like unreasoning animals, born by nature for capture and destruction. Slandering what they do not understand, they also will be destroyed in their destruction, 13suffering harm as the wage of wrongdoing. They count it a pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you. 14They have eyes full of adultery and never cease from sin. They entice unstable souls. Their hearts are trained in greed. They are children of a curse. 15Having left the straight way, they went astray by following the way of Balaam son of Beor , who loved the wages of wrongdoing. 16But he received a rebuke for his own lawlessness: a mute donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet's madness. 17These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved. 18For by speaking arrogant words of emptiness, they entice with fleshly desires and sensual excesses those who are barely escaping from those who live in error. 19They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of destruction. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. 20For if, after escaping the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they become entangled in them again and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22What has happened to them is what the true proverb says: “A dog returns to its own vomit,” and, “A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mud.”
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4/11/2026
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