whereas messengers, in strength and power being greater, do not bear against them before the Lord an evil speaking judgment;

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

And especially those going rear of flesh in a degenerate lust, and who despise lordship. Reckless, self-willed men, they do not tremble when speaking evil of dignities.

But these men, like irrational beasts of nature, having been born for capture and destruction, speaking evil at which things they do not understand, will be destroyed in their corruption,

but had reproof of his own wickedness the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the folly of the prophet.

For while speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with the lusts of the flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error,

as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; among which some things are hard to be understood, which the untaught and ill-established wrest, as also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.