2, verse 10. Peter is continuing to describe the false teachers we have heard about in the past

weeks and he says this about them.

Bold and willful, they are not afraid to rebel the glorious ones,

whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a reviling judgment upon

them before the Lord. But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct born to be caught and killed,

reviling in the matters of which they are ignorant, will be destroyed in the same destruction

with them, suffering wrong for their wrongdoing.

They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime.

They are blocks and blemishes, reveling in their dissipation, carousing with you.

They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin.

They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed, a cursed

children. Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of

Balem, the son of Beaur, who loved gain from wrongdoing,

but was rebuked from his own transgression, a dumb ass spoke with human voice and restrained

the Prophet's madness.

They are waterless springs and mist driven by a storm.

For them the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved.

For uttering loud boasts of folly they entice with licentious

passions of the flesh, men who have barely escaped from those who live in air. They promised

them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, for whatever

overcomes a man, to that he is enslaved.

For if after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,

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