2 Peter 2:7-16

7and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man in anguish over the debauched lifestyle of lawless men,

8(for while he lived among them day after day, that righteous man was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)

9– if so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from their trials, and to reserve the unrighteous for punishment at the day of judgment,

10especially those who indulge their fleshly desires and who despise authority. Brazen and insolent, they are not afraid to insult the glorious ones,

11yet even angels, who are much more powerful, do not bring a slanderous judgment against them before the Lord.

12But these men, like irrational animals – creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed – do not understand whom they are insulting, and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed,

13suffering harm as the wages for their harmful ways. By considering it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight, they are stains and blemishes, indulging in their deceitful pleasures when they feast together with you.

14Their eyes, full of adultery, never stop sinning; they entice unstable people. They have trained their hearts for greed, these cursed children!

15By forsaking the right path they have gone astray, because they followed the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

16yet was rebuked for his own transgression (a dumb donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet’s madness).