2 Peter 2 Cross References - Wesley

¹ But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall likewise be false teachers among you, who will privily bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. ² And many will follow their pernicious ways, by reason of whom the way of truth will be evil spoken of. ³ And through covetousness will they with feigned speeches make merchandize of you, whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not. ⁴ For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, delivered them to chains of darkness, ⁵ to be reserved to judgment, And spared not the old world, (but he saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness) bringing a flood on the world of the ungodly; ⁶ And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example to them that should afterwards live ungodly: ⁷ And delivered righteous Lot, vexed with the filthy behaviour 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 temptation, and to reserve the unrighteous to 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, self-willed; they are not afraid to rail at dignities: ¹¹ Whereas angels, who are greater in power and might, bring not a railing accusation against them before the Lord. ¹² But these, as natural brute beasts, born to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things they understand not, and shall perish in their own corruption, ¹³ Receiving the reward of unrighteousness. They count it pleasure to riot in the day time; spots and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings, while they feast with you, ¹⁴ Having eyes full of adultery, and that cease not from sin; beguiling unstable souls, having hearts exercised with covetousness, accursed children: ¹⁵ Who have forsaken the right way and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam, the son of Boser, who loved the reward of unrighteousness. ¹⁶ But he had a rebuke for his iniquity: the dumb ass, speaking with man's voice, forbad the madness of the prophet. ¹⁷ These are wells without water, clouds driven by a tempest, to whom the blackness of darkness is reserved for ever. ¹⁸ For by speaking swelling words of vanity, they allure thro' the desire of the flesh, thro' wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them that live in error. ¹⁹ While they promise them liberty, themselves are the slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by him he is also brought into slavery. ²⁰ For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, thro the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again intangled therein and overcome, their last state is worse then the first. ²¹ For it had been better for them, not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. ²² But it has befallen them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit, and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

²⁸ But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.

¹⁴ Because straight is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth to life, and few there are that find it. ¹⁵ But beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheeps clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

¹² But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into the outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

²⁹ And behold they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God?

³³ But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven.

²³ And thou, Capernaum, who hast been exalted to heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained till this day. ²⁴ But I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you.

³⁴ Ye brood of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

⁴³ When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh thro' dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. ⁴⁴ Then he saith, I will return to my house whence I came out, and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept and garnished. ⁴⁵ Then goeth he and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there, and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it be also to this wicked generation.

³² For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not; but the publicans and the harlots believed him. And ye seeing it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.

¹³ Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into the outer darkness: there shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth.

¹⁶ And they sent to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth; neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.

⁵ For many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and shall deceive many.

¹⁰ And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and hate one another. ¹¹ And many false prophets shall rise and shall deceive many.

¹¹ And many false prophets shall rise and shall deceive many. ¹² And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. ¹³ But he that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved.

²⁴ For false Christs and false prophets shall arise and shew great signs and wonders, so that they would deceive (if it were possible) even the elect.

³⁷ But as the days of Noah, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ³⁸ For as in the days that were benore the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark. ³⁹ And knew not, till the flood came and took them all away, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

³⁰ And cast ye the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

⁴¹ Then shall he say also to them on his left-hand, Depart from me, ye cursed into the everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.

⁷ said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.

¹⁴ And they coming say to him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man; for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to give tribute to Cesar, or not?

²² For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.

²⁶ And he spake boldly in the synagogue. And Aquila and Priscilla hearing him, took him to their house, and explained to him the way of God more perfectly.

⁹ But when some were hardened, and would not believe, but spake reproachfully of the way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, discoursing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.

²⁸ Take heed therefore to yourselves and to the whole flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. ²⁹ For I know this, that after my departure grievous wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock. ³⁰ Yea, from among yourselves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

²¹ Be not high-minded, but fear. For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed left he also spare not thee.

¹ Let every soul be subject to the supreme powers, for there is no power but from God; the powers that be, are appointed by God. ² Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the appointment of God; and they that resist shall receive to themselves condemnation. ³ For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Wouldest thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise from it; for he is the servant of God to thee for good. ⁴ But if thou dost that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain; for he is the servant of God, an avenger for wrath against him that doth evil. ⁵ Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.

¹³ Let us walk decently, as in the day; not in banqueting and drunken entertainments, not in uncleannesses and wantonness, not in strife and envy.

¹⁹ whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame;

⁸ Beware lest any man make a prey of you through philosophy and empty deceit, after the traditions of men, after the rudiments of this world, and not after Christ.

¹⁸ Let none defraud you of your reward by a voluntary humility and worship of angels, intruding into the things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

⁵ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

⁴ For it is impossible for those who were once inlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and been made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

⁴ For it is impossible for those who were once inlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and been made partakers of the Holy Ghost, ⁵ And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

⁵ And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, ⁶ And have fallen away, to renew them again unto repentance, seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

⁶ And have fallen away, to renew them again unto repentance, seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. ⁷ For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh often upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them for whom it is tilled, receiveth blessing from God. ⁸ But that which beareth thorns and briars is rejected and nigh unto a curse, whose end is to be burned.

²⁶ Wo to you, when all men shall speak well of you; for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

³¹ And they besought him, that he would not command them to go into the abyss.

¹⁸ And he said to them, I beheld Satan falling as lightning from heaven.

²⁴ When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh thro' dry places, seeking rest: and finding none, he saith, I will return to my house whence I came out. ²⁵ And coming he findeth it swept and garnished. ²⁶ Then goeth he and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and entering in they dwell there; and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first.

⁹ But he that denieth me before man, shall be denied before the angels of God.

⁴⁷ And that servant who knew his Lord's will, and prepared not, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

¹¹ If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will intrust you with the true riches?

²⁶ And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the son of man. ²⁷ They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸ Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded: ²⁹ But the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. ³⁰ Even thus shall it be in the day that the Son of man is revealed.

⁸ I tell you he will vindicate them speedily. Yet when the Son of man cometh, will he find faith upon earth?

¹⁴ But his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.

²⁰ And watching him, they sent forth spies, feigning themselves to be just men, to take hold of his discourse, that they might deliver him to the power and authority of the governour.

⁸ And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ: And the time is near.

⁴⁷ And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near to Jesus to kiss him.

¹⁶ and otherthrew the tables, And said to them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of traffick.

⁴⁴ How can ye believe, while ye receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that is from God only?

²¹ Then said Jesus again to them, I go, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sin.

³⁴ Jesus answered them, Verily, verily I say unto you, he that practiseth sin, is the slave of sin:

⁴⁴ Ye are of your father the devil, and your will is, to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth; for there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it.

⁴¹ Jesus said to them, If ye had been blind, ye would have had no sin. But now ye say, We see: therefore your sin remaineth.

⁶ Jesus saith, I am the way; and the truth, and the life; no man cometh to the Father, but by me.

²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

¹⁸ Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity, and falling down on his face, he burst asunder in the middle, and all his bowels gushed out.

⁴⁰ And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this perverse generation.

¹³ The God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his son Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and renounced him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to release him. ¹⁴ But ye renounced the holy one and the just, and desired a murderer to be granted you.

⁹ But a certain man, named Simon, had been before in the city, using magic, and astonishing the Samaritans, saying, that he was some great one.

¹⁰ and fixing his eyes upon him, said, O full of all guile and all mischief, thou son of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

² But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil-affected against the brethren.

¹⁷ She following after Paul and us, cried out, saying, These men are servants of the most high God, who declare to us the way of salvation.

⁵ Then said Paul, I was not aware, brethren, that it was the high priest; for it is written, Thou shalt not revile the ruler of thy people.

¹⁴ that after the way, which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:

¹¹ And frequently punishing them in all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

²⁴ And as he was thus making his defence, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself, much learning doth make thee mad. ²⁵ But he said, I am not mad, most excellent Festus, but utter the words of truth and sobriety.

²⁴ Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness in the desires of their hearts, to dishonour their bodies among themselves; ²⁵ Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature above the creator, who is blessed for ever! ²⁶ Amen. Therefore God gave them up to vile affections; for even their women changed the natural use to that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, ²⁷ leaving the natural use of the women, burned in their lust toward each other, men with men working filthiness, and receiving in themselves the just recompence of their error.

⁵ But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up to thyself wrath in the day of wrath, and revelation, and righteous judgment of God?

⁸ But to them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, shall be indignation and wrath, ⁹ tribulation and anguish, Even upon every soul of man who worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also the Gentile:

²⁴ For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

¹² Therefore let not sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in the desires thereof. ¹³ Neither present your members to sin, as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members to God, as instruments of righteousness. ¹⁴ For sin shall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

¹⁶ Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are whom ye obey? Whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? ¹⁷ But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were the servants of sin, ye have now obeyed from the heart the form of doctrine into which ye have been delivered. ¹⁸ Being then set free from sin, ye are become the servants of righteousness. ¹⁹ I speak as a man, because of the weakness of your flesh. As ye have presented your members servants to uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity, so now present your members servants of righteousness, unto holiness. ²⁰ For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. ²¹ What fruit had ye then from those things whereof ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. ²² But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

¹² So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

¹ Therefore there is now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

⁴ That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. ⁵ They that are after the flesh, mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

¹² Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. ¹³ For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if ye through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the flesh, ye shall live.

³² He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

¹⁸ For such serve not the Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by good words and fair speeches, deceive the hearts of the simple.

⁹ Know ye not, that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate,

²⁰ And ye are not your own: For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God with your body and your spirit, which are God's.

²³ Ye are bought with a price; do not become the servants of men.

¹¹ Now all these things happened to them for examples, and they are written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages are come.

¹³ There hath no temptation taken you, but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above your ability, but will with the temptation make also a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

¹⁹ For there must be heresies also among you, that the approved among you may be manifest). ²⁰ Therefore when ye come together into one place, it is not eating the Lord's supper. ²¹ For in eating every one taketh before another his own supper, and one is hungry, another drinks largely. ²² What! have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or do ye despise the church of God, and shame them that have not? what shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this?

¹⁷ For we are not as many, who adulterate the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.

¹⁰ For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive according to what he hath done in the body, whether good or evil. ¹¹ Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men: but we are made manifest to God, and I trust we are made manifest in your consciences also.

³ For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:

¹³ For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. ¹⁵ Therefore it is no great thing, if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose ends shall be according to their works.

¹⁷ Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent to you? ¹⁸ I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? In the same steps?

⁴ being a Greek, compelled to be circumcised, Because of false brethren introduced unawares, who came in privily, to spy out our liberty which we have through Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

¹³ Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: (for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

¹⁷ They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.

¹ Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free, and be not intangled again with the yoke of bondage.

¹³ Brethren, ye have been called to liberty: only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

²⁰ uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, enmities, contentions,

⁸ For he that soweth to the flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

⁷ by which he hath freely accepted us through the beloved, By whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins,

³ in the desires of the flesh, doing the will of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the others.

¹⁴ That we may be no longer children, fluctuating to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the slight of men, by cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive:

¹⁹ Who being past feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

⁵ For this ye know, that no whoremonger, or unclean person, or covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

²⁷ That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, that it may be holy and unblamable.

⁵ For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness: God is witness:

² For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

⁷ For God hath not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.

³ When they say, peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape.

⁷ For they that sleep, sleep in the night, and they that are drunken are drunken in the night. ⁸ But let us who are of the day keep awake, having put on the breast-plate of faith and love, and for an helmet the hope of salvation.

⁷ And to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels,

³ Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, unless the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, ⁴ Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God as God, declaring himself that he is God.

⁴ Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God as God, declaring himself that he is God. ⁵ Remember ye not, that I told you these things, when I was yet with you? ⁶ And now ye know that which with-holdeth, that he may be revealed in his time. ⁷ For the mystery of iniquity already worketh; only he that with-holdeth will with-hold, till he be taken out of the way. ⁸ And then will that wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the Spirit of his mouth, and destroy with the brightness of his coming: ⁹ Whose coming is after the mighty working of Satan, with all power and signs and lying wonders, ¹⁰ And with all deceiveableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. ¹¹ And therefore God shall send them strong delusion, so that that they shall believe a lie, ¹² That they all may be condemned, who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

⁹ Knowing this, that the law doth not lie against a righteous man; but against the lawless and disobedient, against the ungodly and sinners, the unholy and prophane, against killers of their fathers or their mothers, against murderers,

³ Not given to wine, no striker, not desirous of filthy gain, but gentle, patient, not loving money;

⁸ Likewise the deacons must be serious, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not desirous of filthy gain: Holding fast the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

¹ But the spirit saith expresly, that in the later times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, ² By the hypocrisy of them that speak lies, having their own consciences seared as with an hot iron: ³ Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.

¹⁴ I counsel therefore the younger women to marry, bear children, guide the family, give no occasion of reproach to the adversary.

⁵ evil surmisings, Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, supposing the gain is godliness. From such withdraw thyself.

¹² If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: ¹³ if we deny him, he will also deny us: If we believe not, he remaineth faithful; he cannot deny himself.

²⁶ And they may awake out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

¹ But know this, that in the last days grievous times will come. ² For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, arrogant, proud, evil-speakers, ³ disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, Without natural affection, covenant-breakers, slanderers, intemperate, fierce, despisers of good men, ⁴ Traitors, rash, puffed up, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God; ⁵ Having a form of godliness but denying the power of it. ⁶ From these also turn away. For of these are they who creep into houses, and captivate silly women laden with sins, led away by various desires, ⁷ Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. ⁸ Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also withstand the truth: men of corrupt minds, void of judgment as to the faith. ⁹ But they shall proceed no farther; for their folly shall be manifest to all men, as theirs also was.

¹² Yea and all that are resolved to live godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution.

³ For the time will come, when they will not endure sound doctrine, but will heap to themselves teachers, according to their own desires, having itching ears.

¹⁴ Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil; the Lord will reward him according to his works.

⁷ For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not passionate, not given to wine, no striker, not desirous of filthy gain:

¹¹ Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole families, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of filthy gain.

⁵ to love their chidren, Discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

⁸ that he who is on the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of us.

¹⁴ Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

³ For we also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, inslaved to various desires and pleasures, living in wickedness and envy, hateful, hating one another:

¹⁰ An heretic after a first and second admonition reject,

² For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence: ³ How shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation, which began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by them that had heard him?

²⁶ For when we sin wilfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which will devour the adversaries.

²⁹ Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and counted the blood of the covenant, by which he hath been sanctified, an unholy thing, and done despite to the spirit of grace?

⁷ By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his houshold, by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

⁴ Marriage is honourable in all men, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

⁸ A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.

¹⁷ Therefore to him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

⁵ Ye have lived delicately on earth, and been wanton; ye have cherished your hearts, as in a day of sacrifice.

¹⁶ Confess your faults one to another, brethren, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed: the fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

⁸ Whom having not seen, ye love: in whom tho' ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory, Receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

⁸ And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, to them who stumble, not believing the word, whereunto also they were appointed.

¹² which war against the soul, Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that whereas they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. ¹³ Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake, whether it be to the king as supreme, Or to governors, ¹⁴ as sent by him, for the punishment of evil-doers, and the praise of them that do well.

¹⁶ yet not having your liberty for a cloak of wickedness, but as the servants of God.

¹⁹ but raised to life by the spirit, By which likewise he went and preached to the spirits in prison, ²⁰ Who some time disbelieved, when the long-suffering of God waited in the Days of Noah, while the ark was preparing, wherein few, that is, eight persons were saved through the water:

⁴ Wherein they think it strange, that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot,

² Feed the flock of God which is among you, overseeing it not by constraint, but willingly, not for filthy gain, but of a ready mind,

² Grace and peace be multiplied unto you, thro' the knowledge of God, and of Jesus, our Lord;

⁴ By which he hath given us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these, having escaped the corruption which is in the world thro' desire, ye may become partakers of the divine nature:

¹⁶ For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty.

¹ But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall likewise be false teachers among you, who will privily bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

³ And through covetousness will they with feigned speeches make merchandize of you, whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not. ⁴ For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, delivered them to chains of darkness, ⁵ to be reserved to judgment, And spared not the old world, (but he saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness) bringing a flood on the world of the ungodly;

⁹ The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to reserve the unrighteous to the day of judgment to be punished.

¹¹ Whereas angels, who are greater in power and might, bring not a railing accusation against them before the Lord. ¹² But these, as natural brute beasts, born to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things they understand not, and shall perish in their own corruption, ¹³ Receiving the reward of unrighteousness. They count it pleasure to riot in the day time; spots and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings, while they feast with you, ¹⁴ Having eyes full of adultery, and that cease not from sin; beguiling unstable souls, having hearts exercised with covetousness, accursed children: ¹⁵ Who have forsaken the right way and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam, the son of Boser, who loved the reward of unrighteousness.

¹⁵ Who have forsaken the right way and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam, the son of Boser, who loved the reward of unrighteousness.

¹⁸ For by speaking swelling words of vanity, they allure thro' the desire of the flesh, thro' wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them that live in error. ¹⁹ While they promise them liberty, themselves are the slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by him he is also brought into slavery. ²⁰ For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, thro the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again intangled therein and overcome, their last state is worse then the first. ²¹ For it had been better for them, not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.

³ that there will come scoffers in the last days,

⁶ Thro' which the world that then was, being overflowed with water perished. ⁷ But the heavens and the earth that are now, are by his word kept in store reserved unto fire, against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

¹⁶ As also in all his epistles, speaking therein of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction. ¹⁷ Ye, therefore, beloved, knowing these things before, beware, lest ye also being led away by the error of the wicked fall from your own stedfastness:

¹⁶ For all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eye, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

¹⁸ Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that Antichrist cometh, so even now there are many Antichrists, whereby we know that it is the last time. ¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us: for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest, that they were not all of us.

²⁶ These things have I written to you, concerning them that seduce you.

⁸ He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning: to this end the son of God was manifested, to destroy the works of the devil.

¹ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

⁴ For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were of old described before with regard to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

⁶ And the angels, who kept not their first dignity, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness to the judgment of the great day.

⁶ And the angels, who kept not their first dignity, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness to the judgment of the great day. ⁷ Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them, which in the same manner with these gave themselves over to fornication, and went after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

⁷ Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them, which in the same manner with these gave themselves over to fornication, and went after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. ⁸ In like manner these dreamers also defile the flesh, despise authority, rail at dignities. ⁹ Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil, he disputed concerning the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. ¹⁰ But these rail at all the things which they know not: and all the things which they know naturally, as the brute beasts, in these they are defiled. ¹¹ Wo to them; for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah. ¹² These are spots in your feasts of love, while they banquet with you feeding themselves without fear: clouds without water, driven about of winds; trees without leaves, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

¹² These are spots in your feasts of love, while they banquet with you feeding themselves without fear: clouds without water, driven about of winds; trees without leaves, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; ¹³ Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

¹³ Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

¹³ Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. ¹⁴ And of these also, Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his holy ones,

¹⁴ And of these also, Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his holy ones, ¹⁵ To execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of them of all their ungodly deeds, which they have impiously committed, and of all the grievous things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

¹⁵ To execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of them of all their ungodly deeds, which they have impiously committed, and of all the grievous things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

¹⁵ To execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of them of all their ungodly deeds, which they have impiously committed, and of all the grievous things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. ¹⁶ These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own desires, and their mouth speaketh great swelling things, having mens persons in admiration for advantage.

¹⁶ These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own desires, and their mouth speaketh great swelling things, having mens persons in admiration for advantage.

¹⁸ For they told you, In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly desires.

⁹ I know thy affliction and poverty, (but thou art rich) and the reviling of those who say they are Jews and are not, but a synagogue of Satan.

¹³ I know where thou dwellest, where the throne of Satan is; and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, in the days wherein Antipas, my faithful witness was, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth. ¹⁴ But I have a few things against thee, that thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.

⁸ I know thy works, (behold I have given before thee an opened door, none can shut it) that thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

¹⁰ Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee, from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon the whole world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

⁹ And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book and to open the seals thereof; for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,

⁷ And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon fought and his angels: ⁸ And he prevailed not, neither was his place found any more in heaven. ⁹ And the great dragon was cast out, the antient serpent, who is called the devil and satan, who deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out unto the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

⁹ And the great dragon was cast out, the antient serpent, who is called the devil and satan, who deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out unto the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

⁵ And there was given him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemy, and authority was given him forty and two months. ⁶ And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle, even them that dwell in heaven.

⁸ And all that dwell upon the earth will worship him, whose name is not written in the book of life of the Lamb, who was slain, from the foundation of the world.

¹¹ And I saw another wild beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, but he spake like a dragon;

¹⁴ And he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the wonders which it is given him to do before the wild beast: saying to them that dwell on the earth, to make an image to the wild beast, which had the wound by the sword, and yet lived.

⁶ Reward her even as she hath rewarded, and give her double according to her works; in the cup which she filled, fill to her double.

¹¹ And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her; for none buyeth their merchandize any more; Merchandize of gold, ¹² and silver, and precious stone, and pearl, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all sorts of thyine wood, and all sorts of vessels of ivory, and all sorts of vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble; ¹³ And cinnamon, and amomum, and odours, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep; and merchandize of horses and of chariots, and of bodies and souls of men.

¹ And I saw an angel descending out of heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, and a great chain in his hand. ² And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, ³ And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he might deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled. After this he must be loosed for a small time.

¹⁰ And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where both the wild beast and the false prophet are: and they shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.