1 fuerunt vero et pseudoprophetae in populo
sicut et in vobis erunt magistri mendaces
qui introducent sectas perditionis
et eum qui emit eos Dominum negant
superducentes sibi celerem perditionem
2 et multi sequentur eorum luxurias
per quos via veritatis blasphemabitur
3 et in avaritia fictis verbis de vobis negotiabuntur
quibus iudicium iam olim non cessat
et perditio eorum non dormitat
4 si enim Deus angelis peccantibus non pepercit
sed rudentibus inferni detractos in tartarum
tradidit in iudicium cruciatos
reservari
5 et originali mundo non pepercit
sed octavum Noe iustitiae praeconem custodivit
diluvium mundo impiorum inducens
6 et civitates Sodomorum et Gomorraeorum in cinerem redigens
eversione damnavit
exemplum eorum qui impie acturi sunt ponens
7 et iustum Loth
oppressum a nefandorum iniuria
conversatione eruit
8 aspectu enim et auditu iustus erat habitans apud eos
qui diem de die animam
iustam iniquis operibus cruciabant
9 novit Dominus pios de temptatione eripere
iniquos vero in diem iudicii cruciandos reservare
10 magis autem eos
qui post carnem in concupiscentia inmunditiae ambulant
dominationemque contemnunt audaces sibi placentes
sectas non metuunt blasphemantes
11 ubi angeli fortitudine et virtute cum sint maiores
non portant adversum se execrabile iudicium
12 hii vero velut inrationabilia pecora
naturaliter in captionem et in perniciem
in his quae ignorant blasphemantes
in corruptione sua et peribunt
13 percipientes mercedem iniustitiae
voluptatem existimantes diei delicias
coinquinationes et maculae deliciis
affluentes
in conviviis suis luxuriantes vobiscum
14 oculos habentes plenos adulterio et incessabiles delicti
pellicentes animas instabiles
cor exercitatum avaritiae habentes maledictionis filii
15 derelinquentes rectam viam
erraverunt secuti viam Balaam ex Bosor
qui mercedem iniquitatis amavit
16 correptionem vero habuit suae vesaniae
subiugale mutum in hominis voce
loquens
prohibuit prophetae insipientiam
17 hii sunt fontes sine aqua et nebulae turbinibus exagitatae
quibus caligo tenebrarum reservatur
18 superba enim vanitatis loquentes
pellicent in desideriis
carnis luxuriae
eos qui paululum effugiunt qui in errore conversantur
19 libertatem illis promittentes cum ipsi servi sint corruptionis
a quo enim quis superatus est huius et servus est
20 si enim refugientes coinquinationes mundi
in cognitione Domini nostri et salvatoris Iesu Christi
his rursus inpliciti superantur
facta sunt eis posteriora deteriora prioribus
21 melius enim erat illis non cognoscere viam iustitiae
quam post agnitionem retrorsum converti
ab eo quod illis traditum est sancto mandato
22 contigit enim eis illud veri proverbii
canis reversus ad suum vomitum
et sus lota in volutabro luti
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. 3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. 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 unto judgment; 5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person , a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; 7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) 9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: 10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they , selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. 11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. 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; 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; 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: 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; 16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet. 17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. 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. 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. 20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 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 unto them. 22 But it is happened unto 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.