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2 Peter 2:18-20
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18 For by speaking high-sounding but empty words[a], they entice with desires of the flesh and with licentiousness those who are scarcely escaping from those who live in error, 19 promising them freedom although they[b] themselves are slaves of depravity. For to whatever someone succumbs, by this he is also[c] enslaved. 20 For if, after they[d] have escaped from the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord[e] and Savior Jesus Christ, and they are again entangled in these things and succumb to them, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:18 Literally “for speaking pompous words of emptiness”
  2. 2 Peter 2:19 Here “although” is supplied as a component of the participle (“are”) which is understood as concessive
  3. 2 Peter 2:19 Some manuscripts omit “also”
  4. 2 Peter 2:20 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“have escaped from”) which is understood as temporal
  5. 2 Peter 2:20 Some manuscripts have “of our Lord”
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