Hi there, this is Mary Demuth and this is Pray Every Day where I have the joy and privilege of praying you through the Bible verse by verse.

We're marching our way through First and Second Peter.

Today I'm going to be reading 2 Peter chapter 2 in the World English Bible, and this is what it says.

But false prophets who arose among the people as false teachers will also be among you, who will

secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the master who brought them, bringing on

themselves swift destruction.

Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of truth will be maligned.

In covetousness, they will exploit you with deceptive words, whose sentence is now from of

old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to T to tartarus and committed them to pits of darkness

to be reserved for judgment and didn't spare the ancient world but preserved Noah with seven others

a preacher of righteousness when he brought up flood on the world of the ungodly and turning the cities of

Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction,

having made them an example to those who would live in an ungodly way,

and delivered righteous lot who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked.

For that righteous man dwelling among them was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds.

Then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment.

But chiefly those who walk after the flesh in lust of defilement and despise authority.

Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries.

Whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don't bring a slanderous judgment against them before the Lord.

But 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,

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