But he that lacketh these things is blind and gropeth for the way with his hand, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

For so the way will be open to you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

So I think it right, as long as I am in this "tent," to rouse you by way of reminding you,

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

And sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, burning them up with fire as an example to those whose way of life might in the future be unpleasing to him;

and if He rescued righteous Lot, who was tormented by the immoral conduct of unprincipled and ungodly men

Most of all, however, them who go their way, after the flesh, with a coveting of defilement, and who despise, lordship, - daring! willful! before dignitaries, they tremble not, defaming,

and receive the reward of unrighteousness. They count it pleasure to live deliciously for a season. Spots they are, and filthiness, living at pleasure, and in deceitful ways feasting with you:

Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;

forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the'son of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing;

For, great swelling words of vanity, uttering, they entice with carnal covetings - in wanton ways - them who are, well-nigh, escaping from the men who, in error, have their behaviour;

They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to corrupt habits; for a man is the slave of anything to which he gives way.

For if, after men have escaped the corrupting ways of the world through a full knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they again become entangled in them and are conquered by them, then their last condition is worse than their former one.

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

Beloved, I am now writing you this second letter. In this [as in the first one], I am stirring up your untainted mind to remind you,

Know this first, that mockers will come in the last days, in their mockery, men who walk the way of their own lusts

and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For, from since the fathers became asleep, all things continue this way from the beginning of creation.

The Lord is not slow in keeping his word, as he seems to some, but he is waiting in mercy for you, not desiring the destruction of any, but that all may be turned from their evil ways.

If all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what men you ought to be! What holy and pious lives you ought to lead,

He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.