But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. Mat 7:15Jud 1:4Deu 13:1-32Ti 4:3Mat 24:112Pe 2:3Gal 2:41Co 11:19 Many will follow their immoral 1 ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned. Rom 2:24Jud 1:10Mat 24:242Pe 2:151Pe 2:12Act 16:17Act 24:14Jud 1:15 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber. 2Co 2:17Deu 32:35Rom 16:181Th 2:5Jud 1:151Ti 6:5Tit 1:111Pe 5:2
For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, 2 and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgment; Jud 1:6Mat 25:41Rom 8:32Rev 20:1-3Rev 12:7-9Isa 14:12Rev 20:10Ezk 7:4 and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly, 2Pe 3:6Heb 11:7Jud 1:14-15Luk 17:26-271Pe 3:19-20Gen 7:1-24Mat 24:37-39Gen 6:1-8 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live in an ungodly way, Jud 1:7Luk 17:28-30Deu 29:23Gen 19:24-25Num 26:101Co 10:11Isa 13:19Jer 50:40 and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked Gen 19:16Gen 19:29Gen 19:7-8Gen 13:13Gen 19:221Co 10:132Pe 3:17Jer 23:9 (for that righteous man dwelling among them was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds), Psa 119:158Ezk 9:4Psa 119:1361Ti 1:9Pro 25:26Jas 5:16Mal 3:15-17Pro 28:12 then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, Psa 34:15-191Co 10:13Rev 3:102Ti 3:12Jud 1:14-152Pe 3:72Co 5:10-11Job 5:19 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, Jud 1:16Jud 1:10Exo 22:28Jud 1:182Pe 3:3Rom 1:24-27Eph 5:5Jud 1:4 whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don’t bring a slanderous judgment against them before the Lord. Jud 1:92Th 1:7Dan 6:22Psa 103:20Psa 104:4 But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed, Jud 1:10Jer 12:32Pe 2:19Gal 6:8Psa 92:6Jer 10:21Jer 10:8Jer 4:22 receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you; Rom 13:13Rom 2:8-9Heb 2:2-3Php 3:191Pe 4:4Eph 5:27Jud 1:12-161Th 5:7-8 having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin, enticing unsettled souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children! 2Pe 2:32Pe 2:18Eph 2:32Pe 3:16Eph 4:14Rom 16:181Co 11:19Jhn 5:44 Forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing; Rev 2:14Jud 1:11Deu 23:4-5Num 22:5-7Num 31:16Neh 13:2Mic 6:52Pe 2:13 but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A speechless donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet. Num 22:21-33Act 26:11Ecc 7:25Ecc 9:3Hos 9:7Luk 16:11Act 26:24-25
These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. Jud 1:12-13Eph 4:14Jer 14:32Pe 2:4Hos 6:4Job 6:14-17Jud 1:6Mat 22:13 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; 2Pe 2:20Jud 1:15-16Rom 13:13Jas 5:52Pe 1:42Th 2:4Rev 13:5-6Act 2:40 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him. Jhn 8:34Rom 6:16-22Gal 5:1Gal 5:131Pe 2:16Tit 3:3Rom 6:12-142Pe 2:20
For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. Heb 10:26-27Heb 6:4-8Php 3:19Luk 11:24-26Deu 32:29Mat 12:43-452Pe 1:42Pe 2:18 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 commandment delivered to them. Ezk 18:24Heb 6:4-6Jas 4:17Ezk 3:20Luk 12:47Jhn 15:221Th 4:2Jhn 9:41 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” 3 and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.” Pro 26:11