Rock�s Second Letter, Chapter 2
{2:1} But there also arose false prophets among the people, as among
you also there will be false teachers, who will secretly bring in
destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them,
bringing on themselves swift destruction. {2:2} Many will follow their
destructive ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be
maligned. {2:3} In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive
words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their
destruction will not slumber. {2:4} For if God didn't spare angels
when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them
to pits of darkness, to be reserved to judgment; {2:5} and didn't
spare the ancient world, but preserved Noach with seven others, a
preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the
ungodly; {2:6} and turning the cities of Sedom and `Amorah into ashes,
condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those
who would live ungodly; {2:7} and delivered righteous Lot, very
distressed by the lustful life of the wicked {2:8} (for that righteous
man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, tormented his
righteous soul from day to day with lawless deeds): {2:9} the Lord
knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the
unrighteous under punishment to the day of judgment; {2:10} but
chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and
despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak
evil of dignitaries; {2:11} whereas angels, though greater in might
and power, don't bring a railing judgment against them before the
Lord. {2:12} But these, as creatures without reason, born mere animals
to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they
are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed, {2:13}
receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure
to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, reveling in their
deceit while they feast with you; {2:14} having eyes full of adultery,
and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart
trained in greed; children of cursing; {2:15} forsaking the right way,
they went astray, having followed the way of Bil`am the son of Be'or,
who loved the wages of wrong-doing; {2:16} but he was rebuked for his
own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with man's voice and stopped the
madness of the prophet. {2:17} These are wells without water, clouds
driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been
reserved forever. {2:18} For, uttering great swelling words of
emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness,
those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error; {2:19}
promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of
corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by the same is he also
brought into bondage.
{2:20} For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world
through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Yeshua the Messiah, they
are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state has become
worse with them than the first. {2:21} For it would be better for them
not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to
turn back from the holy [1>]mitzvah[<1] delivered to them. {2:22} But
it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns
to his own vomit again," and "the sow that had washed to wallowing in
the mire."
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Footnotes:
[1] {2:21} commandment
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