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