LITV(i)
13 being about to receive the wages of unrighteousness, having deemed indulgence in the day to be pleasure; spots and blemishes reveling in their deceits, feasting along with you,
14 having eyes full of an adulteress, and never ceasing from sin; alluring unsettled souls; having a heart busied with covetousness; cursed children;
15 forsaking a straight path, they went astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,
16 but had reproof of his own transgression, the dumb ass speaking in a man's voice held back the madness of the prophet.
17 These are springs without water, clouds being driven by tempest, for whom the blackness of darkness is kept forever.
18 For speaking great swelling words of vanity, by the lusts of the flesh, by unbridled lusts, they allure those indeed escaping the ones living in error,
19 promising them freedom, though themselves being slaves of corruption; for by whom anyone has been overcome, even to this one he has been enslaved.
20 For if by a full knowledge of the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, they have escaped the defilements of the world, and again being entangled they have been overcome by these, then their last things have become worse than the first.
21 For it was better for them not to have fully known the way of righteousness, than fully knowing to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.
22 But the word of the true proverb has happened to them: " The dog turning to his own vomit;" also, the washed sow to wallowing in mud. Prov. 26:11