ABU(i)
10 but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise dominion. Presumptuous, self-willed, they are not afraid to rail at dignities;
11 whereas angels, being greater in strength and power, bring not a railing judgment against them before the Lord.
12 But these, as natural brute beasts born to be taken and destroyed, railing at things that they understand not, shall utterly perish in their own corruption,
13 receiving the wages of unrighteousness, as they who account reveling for a day pleasure; spots, and blemishes, reveling in their own deceits while feasting with you;
14 having eyes full of the adulteress, and that cease not from sin; alluring unstable souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of a curse;
15 forsaking the right way, they went astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,
16 but was rebuked for his iniquity; the dumb ass, speaking with man's voice, forbade the madness of the prophet.
17 These are wells without water, mists driven by a tempest, to whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.
18 For, speaking swelling words of vanity, in lusts of the flesh they allure, by wanton ways, such as partly escape those who live in error;
19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are servants of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by the same he is also brought into bondage.
20 For if, having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christy but having again become entangled therein they are overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.