For, if, having escaped from the defilements of the world by a personal knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, but, by the same having again become entangled, they are defeated, the, last, state hath become, for them, worse than, the first;

Of this, first, taking note - that there will come, in the last of the days, with scoffing, scoffers, after their own covetings, going on,