2 Peter 2
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2 Peter 2:10-19

10and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,

11whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord.

12But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,

13suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you.

14They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!

15Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing,

16but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet's madness.

17These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm. For them the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved.

18For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.

19They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.

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