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and He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, having reduced-them-to-ashes by an overthrow, having made them an example of things coming to ungodly ones;
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and He delivered Lot, a righteous one being oppressed by the conduct of the lawless ones in connection with sensuality
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( for by sight and hearing the righteous one dwelling among them day after day was tormenting his righteous soul with their lawless works)—
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then the Lord knows-how to deliver godly ones from a trial and reserve unrighteous ones for the day of judgment while being punished,
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and especially the ones proceeding after the flesh in a lust for defilement, and despising authority.
class="left-4">They Are Self-Willed Slaves of Corruption Speaking Against The Things of God
Daring, self-willed ones— they do not tremble while blaspheming glories,
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where angels being greater in strength and power do not bring a blasphemous judgment against them from the Lord.
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But these ones are like unreasoning animals having been born as creatures-of-instinct for capture and destruction. While blaspheming in things which they are ignorant, they will also be destroyed in their destruction,
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being wronged as the wages of wrong-doing. Regarding the reveling during the day to be a pleasure, they are spots and blemishes reveling in their deceptions while feasting-with you,
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having eyes full of an adulteress and restless of sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed. Children of a curse!—
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leaving-behind the straight way, they went-astray, having followed-after the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of wrong-doing.
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But he had a rebuke of his own law-violation: a speechless donkey having uttered in the voice of a human restrained the madness of the prophet.
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These ones are waterless springs, and mists being driven by a storm, for whom the gloom of the darkness has been reserved.
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For while uttering pompous words of futility, they entice by the desires of the flesh, by sensualities, the ones barely escaping-from the ones living in error,
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promising them freedom, themselves being slaves of corruption. For by what one has been defeated, by this he has been enslaved.
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class="left-5">Their Slavery Now Is Worse Than Ever
For if— having escaped-from the defilements of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and again having been entangled by these things— they are defeated, then the last state has become worse for them than the first.
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For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than having known, to turn-back from the holy commandment having been delivered to them.
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Beloved, Remember That People Will Come Mocking Christ’s Future Coming
Beloved, I am now writing this second letter to you, in which letters I am arousing your pure mind with a reminder
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to remember the words having been spoken-beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior from your apostles,
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knowing this first— that mockers will come with mocking in the last days, proceeding in accordance with their own desires,
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and saying “Where is the promise of His coming? For from which day the fathers fell-asleep, everything is continuing in-this-manner from the beginning of creation”.
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class="left-2">But God Has Destroyed The Ungodly Before, And He Will Do So Again
For this escapes-notice-of those who are willing— that by the word of God there were heavens from-long-ago, and an earth having existence out of water and by water,
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through which the world at that time was destroyed, having been flooded with water.
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And by the same word the present heavens and earth have been stored-up for fire, being reserved for the day of the judgment and destruction of ungodly people.
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class="left-2">He Is Being Patient Now, But The Day of Destruction Will Come Like a Thief
But do not let this one thing be escaping your notice, beloved— that one day with the Lord is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like one day.
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The Lord is not being slow about the promise as some regard slowness, but He is being patient toward you, not wishing any to perish, but all to make-room for repentance.
