And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,