2 Peter 2:16-18

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹⁶ but received a rebuke for his transgression: A donkey that could not talk spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s irrationality.^(A)

¹⁷ These people are springs without water, mists driven by a whirlwind. The gloom of darkness has been reserved for them.^{(B) 18} For by uttering boastful, empty words,^(C) they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped^[a] from those who live in error.