There were however also false prophets among the people, as also among you there will be false teachers, who will stealthily introduce heresies destructive, even the having bought them Master denying, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

And many will follow after their sensuality, through whom the way of the truth will be maligned.

And through covetousness with fabricated words you they will exploit, for whom the judgment of long ago not is idle, and the destruction of them not slumbers.

If for the God of [the] angels [who] having sinned, not spared, but in chains of gloomy darkness having cast [them] down to Tartarus, delivered [them], for judgment being kept;

and [the] ancient world not He spared, but one of eight, Noah of righteousness a herald preserved, [the] flood upon [the] world of [the] ungodly having brought in;

and [the] cities of Sodom and Gomorrah having reduced to ashes, to destruction He condemned [them], an example of what is coming on ungodly having set

and righteous Lot, being distressed by the of the lawless in sensuality conduct, He rescued —

through seeing for and hearing that righteous [man], dwelling among them day after day, in [his] soul righteous with [their] lawless deeds was tormented —

[then] knows [the] Lord [the] devout out of temptation to deliver; [the] unrighteous then unto [the] day of judgment being punished to keep;

especially then those after [the] flesh in [the] passion of defilement walking and authority despising. Bold, self-willed, glorious ones not they tremble blaspheming,

whereas angels, in strength and in power greater being, not do bring against them from [the] Lord a reviling judgment.

These however, like irrational animals, born as creatures of instinct for capture and destruction, in what they are ignorant of, blaspheming, in the destruction of them also will be destroyed,

suffering [as the] wage of unrighteousness; [as] pleasure esteeming in daytime carousal; blots and blemishes, reveling in the deceptions of them, feasting with you;

eyes having full of adultery, and unceasing from sin, enticing souls unestablished; a heart exercised in craving having — of a curse children!

leaving straight way, they have gone astray, having followed in the way of Balaam [son] of Bosor, who [the] wage of unrighteousness loved;

reproof however he had for his own transgression [by] a donkey mute; in a man’s voice having spoken, it restrained the of the prophet madness.

These are springs without water and mists by storm being driven, for whom gloom of darkness has been reserved.

Arrogant for of vanity speaking words, they entice with [the] passions of [the] flesh to sensuality those scarcely escaping from those in error living;

freedom them promising, themselves slaves being of corruption. By what for anyone has been subdued, by that he has been enslaved.

If for having escaped the pollutions of the world through [the] knowledge of the Lord of us and Savior Jesus Christ, in these now again having been entangled they are subdued, has become to them the last [state] worse than the first.

Better for it was being for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known [it], to have turned from the having been delivered to them holy commandment.

Has happened to them the thing of the true proverb: A dog having returned to [its] own vomit,” and, A sow having washed, to [her] rolling place in [the] mire.