2 Peter 2

But there also arose false prophets among the people, as among you also there will be false teachers, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. ²Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned. ³In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old does not linger, and their destruction will not slumber. ⁴For if Allah didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus[1], and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved to judgment; ⁵and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Nuh with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly; ⁶and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly; ⁷and delivered righteous Lut, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked ⁸(for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds): ⁹the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment; ¹⁰but 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; ¹¹whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord. ¹²But 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, ¹³receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you; ¹⁴having eyes full of adultery, and who cannot cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing; ¹⁵forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam Ibn Beor, who loved the wages of wrong-doing; ¹⁶but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet. ¹⁷These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. ¹⁸For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error; ¹⁹promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by the same is he also brought into bondage.

²⁰For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour 'Isa al-Masih, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state has become worse with them than the first. ²¹For 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. ²²But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "A dog returns to its vomit,"[2] and "the sow that had washed returns to wallowing in the mire."