Hence I mean to keep on reminding you of this, although you are aware of it and are fixed in the Truth as it is;

particularly those who fall in with the polluting appetite of the flesh and despise the Powers celestial. Daring, presumptuous creatures! they are not afraid to scoff at the angelic Glories;

But those people! ??like irrational animals, creatures of mere instinct, born for capture and corruption, they scoff at what they are ignorant of; and like animals they will suffer corruption and ruin,

done out of the profits of their evil-doing. Pleasure for them is revelling in open daylight ??spots and blots, with their dissipated revelling, as they carouse in your midst! ??14 their eyes are full of harlotry, insatiable for sin; their own hearts trained to lust, they beguile unsteady souls. Accursed generation!

These people are waterless fountains and mists driven by a squall, for whom the nether gloom of darkness is reserved.

By talking arrogant futilities they beguile with the sensual lure of fleshly passion those who are just escaping from the company of misconduct ??19 promising them freedom, when they are themselves enslaved to corruption (for a man is the slave of whatever overpowers him).

but the present heavens and earth are treasured up by the same word for fire, reserved for the day when the impious are doomed and destroyed.

Beloved, you must not ignore this one fact, that with the Lord a single day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a single day.

Now as all things are thus to be dissolved, what holy and pious men ought you to be in your behaviour,

Then, beloved, as you are expecting this, be eager to be found by him unspotted and unblemished in serene assurance.

Now, beloved, you are forewarned: mind you are not carried away by the error of the lawless and so lose your proper footing;