and many shall follow their dissolute ways, through whom the way of the truth shall be blasphemed.

having left the straight way they have gone astray, having followed in the path of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the reward of unrighteousness;

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

This, a second letter, beloved, I already write to you, in both which I stir up, in the way of putting you in remembrance, your pure mind,