As his divine power has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the acknowledgment of him who has called us by his glorious power,

and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.

and if, turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, he condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example to those who should afterward live in an ungodly manner,

For by speaking boastful words of folly, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, and through lasciviousness, those who had really escaped from those who live in error.