1 Now there were also false prophets among the people, as even among you there shall be false teachers who shall introduce destructive systems of philosophy, even denying the Master who has bought them, bringing upon themselves quick destruction,2 and many shall follow in their licentiousness, because of whom the way of truth shall be blasphemed,3 and with greediness they shall make profit from you with fictitious words, for whom from of old their judgment is not idle and their destruction does not sleep!4 For if Yahweh did not spare the messengers who had done wrong but having cast them into Tartaros into a pit of darkness He had delivered them being kept for judgment,5 and He did not spare of the old society but He had kept Noah, the eighth proclaimer of righteousness, having brought a deluge upon the society of the impious,6 and the cities of Sodom and Gomorra burning to ashes He had condemned to destruction, having been set forth for an example of those who are going to be impious,7 and He delivered the righteous Lot who had been oppressed by the licentious conduct of the lawless8 (for with sights and reports the righteous one dwelling among them day by day tormented a righteous soul with their lawless deeds),9 the Prince knows to deliver the pious from trial, but to keep the unrighteous being punished for a day of judgment -10 and especially those going after the flesh with desires of defilement and despising authority, presumptuous adventurers, not fearing honor they blaspheme,11 where the messengers being greater in power and ability do not bring against them a judgment for blasphemy as appropriate.12 But these, having been born as natural irrational animals into destruction and corruption in which blaspheming they are ignorant in their corruption they also shall perish,13 doing injustice for the wages of injustice, regarding luxury a pleasure by day, stains and disgraces reveling in their deceits feasting together with you,14 having eyes full of adultery and unable to cease from wrongdoing, enticing unstable souls, having hearts exercised for greediness, cursed children,15 abandoning the straight road they have wandered astray, following in the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who had loved the wage of unrighteousness,16 but he had a rebuke for his own transgression: a dumb beast of burden with the voice of a man having spoken clearly had curbed the derangement of the prophet.17 These are streams without water and clouds being driven by a tempest, for whom the gloom of darkness is kept.18 For uttering excessive vanity they entice with the licentious desires of the flesh those nearly escaping who are returning to error.19 Proclaiming for themselves freedom they become slaves of corruption. For by that which one is overcome, to this he is enslaved.20 For if escaping the pollutions of Society by the knowledge of our Prince and Savior Yahshua Christ, and these being entangled again are overcome, the ends of them become worse than the beginnings!21 For it was better for them not having known the way of righteousness than they know turning away from the holy commandment having been delivered to them.22 But the truth of the proverb happened to them: "A dog returns to its own vomit", and "a sow being cleansed to rolling in mud".