But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who bring in heresies of destruction, and deny the Master who bought them, while they bring swift destruction on themselves.

And many will go after their uncleanness; because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed.

And in greed and with fabricated words they will make merchandise of you; whose judgment from of old is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.

For if Elohim did not spare the messengers who sinned, but cast them down in chains of gloom to the lower parts and delivered them to be kept for the judgment of torment,

and did not spare the former world, but preserved Noach the eighth, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the wicked;

and burned the cities of Sodom and Amorah, and condemned them with an overthrow, setting them as a demonstration to the wicked who are to come;

and also delivered righteous Lot, who was tormented by the filthy conduct of these who are without law;

for that upright man, while he was dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing day from day, was tormenting his righteous soul by lawless deeds;

Master YHWH knows how to rescue from affliction those who fear him, but the unjust he reserves for the day of judgment while they are tormented,

and especially those who go after the flesh in the lust of pollution, and despise lordship. Daring and arrogant, they do not tremble while they blaspheme;

whereas messengers, greater than they in power and strength, do not bring against them from Master YHWH a judgment of blasphemy.

But these, like mute beasts that by nature are for slaughter and corruption, while they blaspheme in the things they do not know, will be corrupted in their own corruption;

those for whom wrongdoing is the wage of wrongdoing, and delight is counted by them as revelry that happens in the daytime; stained and full of spots are they, who while they revel in their ease luxuriate;

having eyes that are full of adultery and of sin that never ends, while they entice souls that are not steady, and a heart trained in greed they have, children of a curse;

who left the straight way, went astray and went in the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wage of wrongdoing,

but he had a rebuke for his transgression: a donkey without a voice that spoke with the voice of humans and stopped the madness of the prophet.

These are springs without water, clouds driven by a storm, those for whom the gloom of darkness is kept.

For while they speak empty bombast they entice with filthy desires of the flesh those who with a little word are escaping from those who walk in error.

And they promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of corruption: for by whatever a man is overcome, to that he is also enslaved.

For if, when they have escaped the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Master Y'shua the Mashiyach and our Life-Giver, they become again entangled in them and are overcome, their latter state is worse than the former.

For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that was delivered to them.

But these things have happened to them according to the true proverb: the dog returns to his vomit, and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.