- yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
- But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
- They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
- With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed--an accursed brood!
- They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.
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- whereas angels who are greater in might and power do not bring a reviling judgment against them before the Lord.
- But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,
- suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you,
- having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children;
- forsaking the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
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