I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to stir you up by way of reminder,

And many will follow their licentiousness, and because of them the way of truth will be reviled.

Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment handed on to them.

This is now the second letter that I have written to you, beloved, and in both of them I have aroused your sincere mind by way of reminder;

Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy lives and godliness,

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.