II Peter 2:12
The Scripture
(12) But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
Chapter overview (whole chapter)
Peter warned that false teachers would secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying the Lord who bought them, and would face swift destruction. He cited God's judgment on the fallen angels, the flood in Noah's day, and Sodom and Gomorrah as proof that the LORD knows how to deliver the godly and punish the unjust.
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