1But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.stylusMatthew 7:15, Matthew 7:15, Jude 1:4, Jude 1:4, Deuteronomy 13:12Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.stylusRomans 2:24, Romans 2:24, Jude 1:10, Jude 1:10, Titus 2:83In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old does not linger, and their destruction is not asleep.stylus2 Corinthians 2:17, 2 Corinthians 2:17, Deuteronomy 32:35, Deuteronomy 32:35, 1 Thessalonians 2:54For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to the lower parts of hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;stylusJude 1:6, Jude 1:6, Matthew 25:41, Matthew 25:41, Romans 8:325and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a proclaimer of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;stylusHebrews 11:7, Hebrews 11:7, 2 Peter 3:6, 2 Peter 3:6, Jude 1:146and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;stylusJude 1:7, Jude 1:7, Luke 17:28, Luke 17:30, Luke 17:287and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wickedstylusGenesis 19:16, Genesis 19:16, Genesis 19:29, Genesis 19:29, Jeremiah 23:98(for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):stylusPsalms 119:158, Psalms 119:158, Ezekiel 9:4, Ezekiel 9:4, Psalms 119:1369the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;stylus1 Corinthians 10:13, 1 Corinthians 10:13, Psalms 34:15, Psalms 34:19, Psalms 34:1510but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;stylusJude 1:16, Jude 1:16, Jude 1:10, Jude 1:10, Exodus 22:2811whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord.stylusJude 1:9, Jude 1:9, Psalms 104:4, 2 Thessalonians 1:7, Psalms 104:412But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,stylusJude 1:10, Jude 1:10, Jeremiah 12:3, Jeremiah 12:3, 2 Peter 2:1913suffering the penalty as the wages of evil; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;stylusRomans 13:13, Romans 13:13, Romans 2:8, Romans 2:9, Romans 2:814having eyes full of adultery, and who cannot cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;stylus2 Peter 2:3, 2 Peter 2:18, 2 Peter 2:3, 2 Peter 2:18, Ephesians 2:315forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;stylusRevelation 2:14, Revelation 2:14, Jude 1:11, Jude 1:11, Deuteronomy 23:416but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.stylusNumbers 22:21, Numbers 22:33, Numbers 22:21, Numbers 22:33, Acts 26:1117These are wells without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved.stylusJude 1:12, Jude 1:13, Jude 1:12, Jude 1:13, Jeremiah 14:318For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who barely escape from those who live in error;stylus2 Peter 2:20, Jude 1:15, Jude 1:16, 2 Peter 2:20, Jude 1:1519promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.stylusJohn 8:34, John 8:34, Romans 6:16, Romans 6:22, Romans 6:1620For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.stylusHebrews 10:26, Hebrews 10:27, Hebrews 10:26, Hebrews 10:27, Hebrews 6:421For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.stylusEzekiel 18:24, Ezekiel 18:24, James 4:17, James 4:17, Hebrews 6:422It has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire."stylusProverbs 26:11, Proverbs 26:11