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 2 Peter 2:1-10  NAS
 
 But false prophets also
      arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among
      you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the
      Master who brought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. 
      Many will follow their sensuality, because of them the way of the truth
      will be maligned; and in their greed they will exploit you with
      false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their
      destruction is not asleep.
 
 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell
      and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment, and did not
      spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness,
      with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of ungodly; and if
      He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing
      them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly
      lives thereafter; and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed
      by sensual conduct of unprincipled men ( for by what he saw and heard that
      righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul
      tormented day after day by their lawless deeds), then the
      Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the
      unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those
      who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority.
 
 
 
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