2 And many shall follow their pernicious (poisonous) ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3 And through covetousness (greed) shall they with feigned (fabricated) words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
12 But these, as natural brute (unthinking) beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness (recklessness), those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
19 While they promise them liberty (self governing), they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing (immersing) in the mire (slime).
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