2 Peter 2:9-22, Jude 1:4-13 - LSB - Legacy Standard Bible

2 Peter 2:9-22

9 ^athen the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from ¹trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the ^bday of judgment, 10 and especially those who ^ago after the flesh in its corrupt lust and ^bdespise authority.
Daring, ^cself-willed, they do not tremble when they ^bblaspheme ¹glorious ones, 11 ^awhereas angels who are greater in strength and power do not bring a reviling judgment against them before the Lord. 12 But ^athese, like unreasoning animals, ^bborn as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, blaspheming where they have no knowledge, will in ¹the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed, 13 suffering unrighteousness as ^athe wages of their unrighteousness, considering it a pleasure to ^brevel in the ^cdaytime—they are stains and blemishes, ^breveling in their ¹deceptions, as they ^dfeast with you, 14 having eyes full of adultery and unceasing sin, ^aenticing ^bunstable souls, having a heart trained in ^cgreed—they are ^daccursed children. 15 Forsaking ^athe right way, they have gone astray, having followed ^bthe way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved ^cthe wages of unrighteousness, 16 but he received a rebuke for his own lawlessness, ^afor a mute donkey, speaking out with a voice of a man, restrained the madness of the prophet.
17 These are ^asprings without water and mists driven by a storm, ^bfor whom the ¹black darkness has been kept. 18 For speaking out ^aarrogant words of ^bvanity, they ^centice by ^dsensual lusts of the flesh, those who barely ^eescape from the ones who conducted themselves in error, 19 promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for ^aby what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved. 20 For if they are overcome, having both ^aescaped the defilements of the world by ^bthe knowledge of the ^cLord and Savior Jesus Christ and having again been ^dentangled in them, then ^ethe last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 ^aFor it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from ^bthe holy commandment ^chanded on to them. 22 The ¹message of the true proverb has happened to them, “^aA dog returns to its own vomit,” and, “A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire.”

Jude 1:4-13

4 For certain persons have ^acrept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand ¹^bmarked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn ^cthe grace of our God into ^dsensuality and ^edeny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
5 Now I want to ^aremind you, though ^byou know all things, that ¹Jesus, ^chaving once saved a people out of the land of Egypt, ²subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And ^aangels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has ^bkept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day, 7 just as ^aSodom and Gomorrah and the ^bcities around them, having indulged in the same way as these in gross sexual immorality and having ^cgone after ¹strange flesh, are exhibited as an ²^dexample in undergoing the ^epunishment of eternal fire.
8 Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming, ^adefile the flesh, and reject authority, and blaspheme ¹glorious ones. 9 But ^aMichael ^bthe archangel, when he, disputing with the devil, was arguing about ^cthe body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a blasphemous judgment, but said, “^dThe Lord rebuke you!” 10 But ^athese men blaspheme the things which they do not understand; and ^bthe things which they know by instinct, ^alike unreasoning animals, by these things they are ¹destroyed. 11 Woe to them! For they have gone ^athe way of Cain, and for pay they have poured themselves into ^bthe error of Balaam, and ^cperished in the rebellion of Korah. 12 These are the men who are ¹hidden reefs ^ain your love feasts when they feast with you ^bwithout fear, caring for themselves; ^cclouds without water, ^dcarried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, ²doubly dead, ^euprooted; 13 ^awild waves of the sea, casting up ^btheir own ¹shame like foam; wandering stars, ^cfor whom the ²black darkness has been reserved forever.