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

Then there will be many who will follow their immorality, because of whom the Way of the Truth will be maligned.

They have forsaken the right way; they have lost their way, and followed the road of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrong-doing.

Indeed it would have been better for them not to have known the Way of Righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them.

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