LEB(i)
1 But there were also false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you also, who will bring in ⌊destructive heresies⌋*, even denying the Master who bought them, thus* bringing on themselves swift destruction.
2 And many will follow their licentious ways, because of whom the way of truth will be reviled.
3 And in greediness they will exploit you with false words, whose condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but held them captive in Tartarus with chains of darkness and handed them over to be kept for judgment,
5 and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a proclaimer of righteousness, ⌊and seven others⌋* when he* brought a flood on the world of the ungodly,
6 and condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes, having appointed them as an example for those who are going to be ungodly,
7 and rescued righteous Lot, worn down by the way of life of lawless persons in licentiousness
8 (for that righteous man, as he* lived among them day after day, was tormenting his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he was seeing and hearing),
9 then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to reserve the unrighteous to be punished at* the day of judgment,
10 and especially those who go after the flesh in defiling lust* and who despise authority.
Bold and arrogant, they do not tremble in awe as they* blaspheme majestic beings, 11 whereas angels, who are greater in strength and power, do not bring against them a demeaning judgment.* 12 But these persons, like irrational animals born only with natural instincts for capture and killing, blaspheming ⌊about things⌋* they do not understand, in their destruction will also be destroyed, 13 being harmed as the wages of unrighteousness. Considering reveling in the daytime a pleasure, they are stains and blemishes, carousing in their deceitful pleasures when they* feast together with you, 14 having eyes full of desire for an adulteress and unceasing from sin, enticing unstable persons, and* having hearts trained for greediness. Accursed children!
Bold and arrogant, they do not tremble in awe as they* blaspheme majestic beings, 11 whereas angels, who are greater in strength and power, do not bring against them a demeaning judgment.* 12 But these persons, like irrational animals born only with natural instincts for capture and killing, blaspheming ⌊about things⌋* they do not understand, in their destruction will also be destroyed, 13 being harmed as the wages of unrighteousness. Considering reveling in the daytime a pleasure, they are stains and blemishes, carousing in their deceitful pleasures when they* feast together with you, 14 having eyes full of desire for an adulteress and unceasing from sin, enticing unstable persons, and* having hearts trained for greediness. Accursed children!