II Peter 2
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But there came to be false-prophets among the people, as there will also be
false-prophets among you, who will secretly bring in destructive
dissensions, and denying the master1
() having bought them, bringing upon
themselves swift destruction,
2
and will follow their debauchery,
because of whom the way of truth will be slandered.
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And in greediness
they will exploit you with made-up words, to whom the judgment will not long
be idle, and their destruction does not slumber.
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For if God did not
spare the angels that sinned, but holding them captive in
Tartarus2 in the chains3 of gloom, he delivered them up, keeping them
for judgment,
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and did not spare the old world, but kept Noah, one of
eight, [a] herald of justness, having brought in the flood upon [the] world of the
impious,
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and having reduced [the] cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, he
condemned [them] to destruction, having appointed [them to be an] example to those [about] to be being
impious,
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and he rescued just Lot, [who was] oppressed by the way of life of
the unprincipled [who were] in debauchery—
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for [that] just [man] dwelling among them
tortured his just psyche-life4
in seeing and hearing from day to day with [their] lawless deed—
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[then the] Lord knows [how] to be rescuing [the] pious from [the] test, and [how] to be
keeping the unjust for the day of judgment to be punished,
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but
especially those proceeding after [the] flesh in [the] lust of pollution and despising
Lordships. [they are] audacious, arrogant, they do not tremble [when] slandering glories,
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whereas angels being greater in strength and ability do not bring
slanderous judgments against them before [the] Lord.
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But these, as
irrational animals, born, natural, for capture and corruption, are ignorant
of that [which they] slander, and will be corrupted in their corruption,
13
justly-receiving the reward of unjustness; [those] considering pleasure [to be an] indulgence
in the daytime. [they are] spots and blemishes carousing in their deception while
feasting with you,
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having eyes full of adultery and unceasing sins,
enticing unstable psyche-lives4, having [a] heart exercised with greed, cursed
children,
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forsaking the right way, they have been deceived,
following the way of Balaam [the son] of Beor, who agape-loved the reward of
unjustness.
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But he had rebuke from his own lawlessness: [the] mute ass
uttering with [the] voice of [a] man hindered the insanity of the prophet.
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These are wells without water and fogs driven by [a] hurricane; for him the
gloom of darkness is kept.
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For uttering swelling futilities they
lure, by [the] lusts of the flesh, in debauchery, those barely escaping those
conducting themselves in deception,
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promising them liberty, they
being slaves of corruption; for to what anyone succumbs, to this he is
enslaved.
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For if having escaped the defilement of the world in the
knowledge of the Lord and savior Jesus Christ, but to these they again
succumb having become entangled, their last [state] is become worse than their
first.
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For it had been better for them to not have known the way of
justice than [after] they knew [it] to turn back from the holy commandment given to them.
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But the true saying has happened to them: [the] dog [is] returned to
his own vomit, and: [the] swine having been washed [is returned] to wallowing in [the] mud.
1DESPOTES "DES-poh-tays"
(δεσπoτης )
`Lord': owner and absolute master of slaves. Whereas DESPOTES emphasizes ownership and complete right of disposal, KURIOS (also translated `Lord') emphasizes power—having it, having the right to wield it. Only slaves have a DESPOTES; even free persons may have a KURIOS.
DESPOTES occurs in
Luke.2:29,
Acts.4:24,
1Tim.6:1,
1Tim.6:2,
2Time.2:21,
Tit.2:9,
1Pet.2:18,
2Pet.2:1,
Jude.1:4,
Rev.6:10. "Lord" in every other case is KURIOS (κυριoς )
2a place lower than Hades
3"chains"
p72K; "pits" ℵB
4from PSYCHE (ψυχη): an individual manifestation of life/consciousness. Animals have PSYCHEs as well as humans. Contrast ZOE (ζωη)—Life 'collectively', interdependent, interconnected.
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On 08 Sep 2009, 19:30.