for he with whom these things are not present is blind, short-sighted, and has forgotten the purging of his former sins.

But I account it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance,

For he received from God the Father honour and glory, such a voice being uttered to him by the excellent glory: This is my beloved Son, in whom I have found my delight;

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

And through covetousness, with well-turned words, will they make merchandise of you: for whom judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction slumbers not.

These are springs without water, and mists driven by storm, to whom the gloom of darkness is reserved for ever.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is subdued, by him is he also brought into slavery.