For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;