2 Peter 2 8-17

 a paraphrased ‘enter the story’

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05/23 ~ From New Testament Letters

   (In the Order Believed Written)

8 - For as a righteous one living day after day, in a fallen city, he (Lot) was tormented of soul over the lawless deeds he saw and heard. 9 But the Lord knows how to deliver the devout from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous unto ‘day’ of judgment and correction [kolazo - chastise, correct, properly - curtail, punish]. {Punishment being the extreme of curtail/correct.} 10 Especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling [miasmos - contaminating, polluting, corrupting] passion and despise {Christ’s} authority {and instructions?}. Bold and willful, they don’t tremble as they blaspheme,11 whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don’t pronounce a judgment against them before the LORD. 12 But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to come to ruin and to be captured {jailed?} blaspheming/railing about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be ruined in their destruction {earthly} 13 suffering wrong as the wage {result} for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to be drunk in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you. 14 They have eyes full of adultery, and are insatiable. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in avarice. Children of a curse! 15 Forsaking the right way, they’ve gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain and advantage from wrongdoing, 16 but was rebuked by a speechless donkey speaking with human voice and restrained the prophet's madness.

     17 These are waterless springs. Mists driven by a storm. For whom gloom of darkness has been kept [téreó - kept, guarded, observed, watched over, reserved].

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Tomorrows verses - 2 Peter 2:18-3:7

My own studies, had to paraphrase to post..

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