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cursed children:
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Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of
Balaam
the son
of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
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But was rebuked for his
iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
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These are
wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved
for ever.
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For when they speak great swelling
words
of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the
flesh,
through much
wantonness, those that were clean escaped from themwho live in error.
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While
they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is
overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
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For if after they have escaped the pollutions of
the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled
therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
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For it had been
better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known
it,
to turn
from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
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But it is happened unto them according to the
true proverb, The dog
is
turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her
wallowing in the mire.
CHAPTER PETER 3
This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in
both
which I stir up your pure minds by way
of remembrance:
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That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy
prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
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Knowing this first,
that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
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And saying, Where
is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as
they were
from
the beginning of the creation.
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For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the
heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
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Whereby the world
that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
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But the heavens and the earth, which are
now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition
of ungodly men.
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But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day
is
with the Lord as
a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
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The Lord is not slack concerning his promise,
as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish,
but that all should come to repentance.
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But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night;
in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent
heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
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Seeing
then
that
all these
things shall be dissolved, what manner
of persons
ought ye to be in
all
holy conversation and
godliness,
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Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being
on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
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Nevertheless we,
according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
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Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him
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