2 Peter 2:14-19 They have eyes engrossed with some adulteress, eyes which never cease from sin. They seduce unsteady souls. They have hearts practiced in covetousness. They are children of a curse.

Riverside⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁴ They have eyes engrossed with some adulteress, eyes which never cease from sin. They seduce unsteady souls. They have hearts practiced in covetousness. They are children of a curse. ¹⁵ Leaving the straight path they have wandered away following the path of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness. ¹⁶ But he was reproved for his sin; a dumb beast of draught, speaking with human voice, checked the madness of the prophet. ¹⁷ These men are springs without water, storm-driven mists for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved. ¹⁸ For by speaking great empty swelling words they entrap in the passions of the flesh — wanton excesses — those who are nearly escaping from those who live in error. ¹⁹ While they promise them liberty they themselves are the slaves of corruption; for by whatever any one is overcome to that he is enslaved.