For if these are in you and abound, they will make you not inactive nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;

where the angels who are greater in strength and power do not bring against them a reproachful judgment;

These are fountains without water, clouds driven by a tempest, to which is reserved the blackness of darkness.

promising them liberty, when they themselves are servants of corruption; for by whatever a man is overcome, to this is he made a servant.

For if having escaped the defilements of the world by a knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and overcome by them, the last state of those persons is worse than the first.

For of this they are willingly ignorant, that the heavens were of old, and the earth was made of water and by water by the word of God,

as also in all his epistles speaking of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest as they also do the other Scriptures to their destruction.