2 Peter 2:15-20

15They have gone astray by abandoning the straight path and have followed the path of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of wickedness

16but received a rebuke for his lawlessness: A speechless donkey spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.

17These people are springs without water, mists driven by a storm. The gloom of darkness has been reserved for them.

18For by uttering boastful, empty words, they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

19They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, since people are enslaved to whatever defeats them.

20For if, having escaped the world’s impurity through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first.