1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privately shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. Compare verse8 commentaries
2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. Compare verse4 commentaries
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation slumbers not. Compare verse3 commentaries
4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved to judgment; Compare verse10 commentaries
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; Compare verse7 commentaries
6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample to those that after should live ungodly; Compare verse6 commentaries
8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) Compare verse3 commentaries
9 The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust to the day of judgment to be punished: Compare verse4 commentaries
10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. Compare verse8 commentaries
11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. Compare verse4 commentaries
12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; Compare verse3 commentaries
13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; Compare verse5 commentaries
14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: Compare verse3 commentaries
15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; Compare verse3 commentaries
16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbade the madness of the prophet. Compare verse4 commentaries
17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. Compare verse4 commentaries
18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. Compare verse2 commentaries
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. Compare verse5 commentaries
20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. Compare verse5 commentaries
21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. Compare verse3 commentaries
22 But it is happened to them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. Compare verse5 commentaries