1 There were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will introduce destructive heresies and even deny the Master who ransomed them, bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2 Many will follow their licentious ways, and because of them the way of truth will be reviled.
3 In their greed they will exploit you with fabrications, but from of old their condemnation has not been idle and their destructiondoes not sleep.
4 For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but condemned them to the chains of Tartarus and handed them over to be kept for judgment;
5 and if he did not spare the ancient world, even though he preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, together with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the godless world;
6 and if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah (to destruction), reducing them to ashes, making them an example for the godless (people) of what is coming;
7 and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man oppressed by the licentious conduct of unprincipled people
8 (for day after day that righteous man living among them was tormented in his righteous soul at the lawless deeds that he saw and heard),
9 then the Lord knows how to rescue the devout from trial and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,
10 and especially those who follow the flesh with its depraved desire and show contempt for lordship. Bold and arrogant, they are not afraid to revile glorious beings,
11 whereas angels, despite their superior strength and power, do not bring a reviling judgment against them from the Lord.
12 But these people, like irrational animals born by nature for capture and destruction, revile things that they do not understand, and in their destruction they will also be destroyed,
13 suffering wrong as payment for wrongdoing. Thinking daytime revelry a delight, they are stains and defilements as they revel in their deceits while carousing with you.
14 Their eyes are full of adultery and insatiable for sin. They seduce unstable people, and their hearts are trained in greed. Accursed children!
15 Abandoning the straight road, they have gone astray, following the road of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved payment for wrongdoing,
16 but he received a rebuke for his own crime: a mute beast spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet's madness.
17 These people are waterless springs and mists driven by a gale; for them the gloom of darkness has been reserved.
18 For, talking empty bombast, they seduce with licentious desires of the flesh those who have barely escaped from people who live inerror.
19 They promise them freedom, though they themselves are slaves of corruption, for a person is a slave of whatever overcomes him.
20 For if they, having escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of (our) Lord and savior Jesus Christ, again become entangled and overcome by them, their last condition is worse than their first.
21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment handed down to them.
22 What is expressed in the true proverb has happened to them, "The dog returns to its own vomit," and "A bathed sow returns to wallowing in the mire."
Versículos relacionados com 2 Peter, 2:
Chapter 2 of 2 Peter deals mainly from false prophets and masters that would arise among the Christian people, bringing heresies and promoting liberation. They would deny God's sovereignty and redemption in Jesus Christ, leading many to follow their pernicious practices. Below are five verses related to these themes, excluding the verses of 2 St. Peter 2:
Matthew 7:15: "Beware of the false prophets, who are presented to you in disguise in sheep, but inside they are stole wolves." Jesus Christ warned his disciples about the presence of false prophets, who would present themselves as spiritual leaders, but who would actually seek to divert people from the truth.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15: "For such false apostles are fraudulent workers, becoming the apostles of Christ. And it is not to admire, because Satan himself becomes an angel of light. their own ministers become ministers of justice; and their end will be according to their works. " The apostle Paul also warned of the presence of false apostles, who pretended to be sent by Christ, but were actually deceators who sought to deceive God's people.
1 John 4:1: "Beloved, do not believe in every Spirit, but prove if the spirits come from God, for many false prophets have come out around the world." The apostle John also instructed Christians to carefully examine the teachings they heard in order to verify whether they came from God or false prophets.
1 Timothy 4:1: "Now the Spirit expressly says that in recent times some will apostatize the faith because they obey deceiving spirits and the teachings of demons." The apostle Paul again warned of the presence of false teachings that would be promoted by people who did not follow God, but to deceiving spirits and demonic teachings.
Judas 1:4: For certain men, whose condemnation had been sentenced for a long time, have infiltrated themselves among you. These are wicked, who transform the grace of our God into liberation and deny Jesus Christ, our only sovereign and Sir." Judas's book also talks about the presence of false masters who denied the truth about Jesus Christ and promoted libertine practices.
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