\subsection{II Peter 2}
\VS{1} But there came to be false-prophets among the people, as there will also be 
false-prophets among you, who will secretly bring in destructive 
dissensions, and denying the master\fnDespotes() having bought them, bringing upon 
themselves swift destruction, 
\VS{2} and will follow their debauchery, 
because of whom the way of truth will be slandered. 
\VS{3} And in greediness 
they will exploit you with made-up words, to whom the judgment will not long 
be idle, and their destruction does not slumber. 
\VS{4} For if God did not 
spare the angels that sinned, but holding them captive in 
Tartarus\footnote{a place lower than Hades} in the chains\footnote{``chains'' 
\papyrus{72}\koine ; ``pits'' \sinaiticus{}B} of gloom, he delivered them up, keeping them 
for judgment, 
\VS{5} and did not spare the old world, but kept Noah, one of 
eight, [a] herald of justness, having brought in the flood upon [the] world of the 
impious, 
\VS{6} and having reduced [the] cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, he 
condemned [them] to destruction, having appointed [them to be an] example to those [about] to be being 
impious, 
\VS{7} and he rescued just Lot, [who was] oppressed by the way of life of 
the unprincipled [who were] in debauchery --- 
\VS{8} for [that] just [man] dwelling among them 
tortured his just psyche-life\fnPsyche{} in seeing and hearing from day to day with [their] lawless deed --- 
\VS{9} [then the] Lord knows [how] to be rescuing [the] pious from [the] test, and [how] to be 
keeping the unjust for the day of judgment to be punished, 
\VS{10} but 
especially those proceeding after [the] flesh in [the] lust of pollution and despising 
Lordships. [they are] audacious, arrogant, they do not tremble [when] slandering glories, 
\VS{11} whereas angels being greater in strength and ability do not bring 
slanderous judgments against them before [the] Lord. 
\VS{12} But these, as 
irrational animals, born, natural, for capture and corruption, are ignorant 
of that [which they] slander, and will be corrupted in their corruption, 
\VS{13} 
justly-receiving the reward of unjustness; [those] considering pleasure [to be an] indulgence 
in the daytime. [they are] spots and blemishes carousing in their deception while 
feasting with you, 
\VS{14} having eyes full of adultery and unceasing sins, 
enticing unstable psyche-lives\fnPsyche{}, having [a] heart exercised with greed, cursed 
children, 
\VS{15} forsaking the right way, they have been deceived, 
following the way of Balaam [the son] of Beor, who agape-loved the reward of 
unjustness. 
\VS{16} But he had rebuke from his own lawlessness: [the] mute ass 
uttering with [the] voice of [a] man hindered the insanity of the prophet. 
\VS{17} These are wells without water and fogs driven by [a] hurricane; for him the 
gloom of darkness is kept. 
\VS{18} For uttering swelling futilities they 
lure, by [the] lusts of the flesh, in debauchery, those barely escaping those 
conducting themselves in deception, 
\VS{19} promising them liberty, they 
being slaves of corruption; for to what anyone succumbs, to this he is 
enslaved. 
\VS{20} For if having escaped the defilement of the world in the 
knowledge of the Lord and savior Jesus Christ, but to these they again 
succumb having become entangled, their last [state] is become worse than their 
first. 
\VS{21} For it had been better for them to not have known the way of 
justice than [after] they knew [it] to turn back from the holy commandment given to them. 
\VS{22} But the true saying has happened to them: [the] dog [is] returned to 
his own vomit, and: [the] swine having been washed [is returned] to wallowing in [the] mud.
