2 Peter 2
False Prophets and
Teachers |
Jude 4.13 |
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But there were false prophets also among
the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who
privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that
bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
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And many shall follow their pernicious
ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken
of.
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And through covetousness shall they with
feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long
time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
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For if God spared not the angels that
sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
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and spared not the old world, but saved
Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing
in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; Gen. 6.1--7.24
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and turning the cities of Sodom and
Gomor'rah into ashes Gen. 19.24 condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
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and delivered just Lot, vexed with the
filthy conversation of the wicked: Gen. 19.1-16
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(for that righteous man dwelling among
them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from
day to day with their unlawful deeds:)
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the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly
out of temptation, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of
judgment to be punished:
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but chiefly them that walk after the
flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government.
Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to
speak evil of dignities.
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Whereas angels, which are greater in
power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before
the Lord.
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But these, as natural brute beasts made
to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they
understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own
corruption;
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and shall receive the reward of
unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in
the daytime. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting
themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with
you;
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having eyes full of adultery, and that
cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: a heart they have
exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
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which have forsaken the right way, and
are gone astray, following the way of Ba'laam the son of
Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
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but was rebuked for his iniquity: the
dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbade the madness of the
prophet. Num. 22.4-35
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These are wells without water, clouds
that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is
reserved for ever.
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For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped
from them who live in error.
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While they promise them liberty, they
themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is
overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
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For if after they have escaped the
pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and
overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the
beginning.
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For it had been better for them not to
have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto
them.
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But it is happened unto them according to
the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; Prov. 26.11 and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the
mire.
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