2 Peter 2 : American Standard Version

1But there arose false prophets also among the
people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall
privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that
bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 2And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the
way of the truth shall be evil spoken of. 3And in
covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you:
whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction
slumbereth not. 4For if God spared not angels when they
sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of
darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5and spared not
the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher
of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the
ungodly; 6and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, having made them an
example unto those that should live ungodly; 7and
delivered righteous Lot, sore distressed by the lascivious life of
the wicked 8(for that righteous man dwelling among them,
in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with
their lawless deeds): 9the Lord knoweth how to deliver
the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under
punishment unto the day of judgment; 10but chiefly them
that walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise
dominion. Daring, self-willed, they tremble not to rail at
dignities: 11whereas angels, though greater in might and
power, bring not a railing judgment against them before the Lord.
12But these, as creatures without reason, born mere
animals to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters whereof they
are ignorant, shall in their destroying surely be destroyed, 13suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; men that count it
pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, revelling in
their deceivings while they feast with you; 14having
eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing
unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children
of cursing; 15forsaking the right way, they went astray,
having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the
hire of wrong-doing; 16but he was rebuked for his own
transgression: a dumb ass spake with man's voice and stayed the
madness of the prophet. 17These are springs without
water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of
darkness hath been reserved. 18For, uttering great
swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by
lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in
error; 19promising them liberty, while they themselves
are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of
the same is he also brought into bondage. 20For if,
after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the
knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again
entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with
them than the first. 21For it were better for them not
to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to
turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog
turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to
wallowing in the mire.