I will endeavour then that even after my decease, ye may always have wherewith to preserve the remembrance of these things.

And many will go out of the way after their fatal errors; by means of whom the way of truth will be injuriously reviled.

especially such as walk after the flesh in the eager pursuit of defilement, and despise government. Daring, self-sufficient, they tremble not at dignities, railing against them.

For it had been better for them never to have been acquainted with the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to have turned aside from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

knowing this principally, that in the last of the days there will come scoffers, walking after their own lewd passions,