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          DASV: 2 Peter 2    

1 But false prophets arose also 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 swift destruction upon themselves.
2 Many will follow their sensual ways. Because of them the way
of the truth will be slandered.
3 In greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their
condemnation, announced long ago, will not delay, and their
destruction is not asleep.
4 For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but
threw them down to hell, and held them in pits of darkness
to be there until the judgment;
5 and if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah,
a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he
brought a flood upon the ungodly world;
6 and if he turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes
when he condemned them to destruction, having made them an
example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7 and if he delivered righteous Lot, who was deeply distressed
by the immoral conduct of the wicked
8 (for that righteous man dwelt among them day after day,
his righteous soul was tormented by seeing and hearing their
lawless deeds),
9 then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of
temptation, and reserve the unrighteous for punishment
unto the day of judgment,
10 especially those who indulge their flesh with defiling lust,
and despise authority. Brash and arrogant, they do not fear
slandering heavenly beings.
11 Even angels, who are greater in might and power, do not
bring slanderous judgment against them before the Lord.
12 But these men, like irrational animals, born as mere animals
to be caught and destroyed, are slanderous concerning matters
of which they are ignorant, as a result in their destruction,
they themselves will be destroyed.
13 They will suffer harm as the payment for their wrong doing.
They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are
spots and blemishes, delighting in their deceptions even
while they feast with you.
14 Their eyes are full of adultery, unable to cease from
sinning. They entice those who are unstable. Their hearts
are trained in greed. They are accursed children.
15 By forsaking the right way, they have gone astray, having
followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the
wages of doing wrong.
16 But he was rebuked for his own transgression. A dumb
donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet’s
madness.
17 These men are springs without water, and mists driven by
a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved.
18 For by speaking great swelling nonsense, they entice by
sensual passions, those who are barely escaping from those
who live in error.
19 They promise them freedom, while they themselves are enslaved
to immorality. For a person is a slave to whatever masters them.
20 For if after they have escaped the filth of the world through
the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again
get entangled and overcome, the last state has become worse
for them than their first.
21 For 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 that had been delivered to them.
22 They illustrate truth of the proverb, “The dog returns to
his own vomit,” and “A pig, after having washed herself,
returns to wallow in the mud.”

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