G2532–καί–kai

and many shall follow out their destructive ways, because of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of,

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and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.

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and the old world did not spare, but the eighth person, Noah, of righteousness a preacher, did keep, a flood on the world of the impious having brought,

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and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah having turned to ashes, with an overthrow did condemn, an example to those about to be impious having set `them';

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and righteous Lot, worn down by the conduct in lasciviousness of the impious, He did rescue,

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for in seeing and hearing, the righteous man, dwelling among them, day by day the righteous soul with unlawful works was harassing.

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and chiefly those going behind the flesh in desire of uncleanness, and lordship despising; presumptuous, self-complacent, dignities they are not afraid to speak evil of,

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whereas messengers, in strength and power being greater, do not bear against them before the Lord an evil speaking judgment;

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and these, as irrational natural beasts, made to be caught and destroyed -- in what things they are ignorant of, speaking evil -- in their destruction shall be destroyed,

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about to receive a reward of unrighteousness, pleasures counting the luxury in the day, spots and blemishes, luxuriating in their deceits, feasting with you,

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having eyes full of adultery, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having an heart exercised in covetousnesses, children of a curse,

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These are wells without water, and clouds by a tempest driven, to whom the thick gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept;

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liberty to them promising, themselves being servants of the corruption, for by whom any one hath been overcome, to this one also he hath been brought to servitude,

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for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first,

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and happened to them hath that of the true similitude; `A dog did turn back upon his own vomit,' and, `A sow having bathed herself -- to rolling in mire.'

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to be mindful of the sayings said before by the holy prophets, and of the command of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour,

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and saying, `Where is the promise of his presence? for since the fathers did fall asleep, all things so remain from the beginning of the creation;'

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for this is unobserved by them willingly, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of water and through water standing together by the word of God,

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and the present heavens and the earth, by the same word are treasured, for fire being kept to a day of judgment and destruction of the impious men.

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And this one thing let not be unobserved by you, beloved, that one day with the Lord `is' as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day;

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and it will come -- the day of the Lord -- as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the elements with burning heat be dissolved, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.

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All these, then, being dissolved, what kind of persons doth it behove you to be in holy behaviours and pious acts?

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waiting for and hasting to the presence of the day of God, by which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements with burning heat shall melt;

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and for new heavens and a new earth according to His promise we do wait, in which righteousness doth dwell;

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wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace,

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