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Butchiefly them that walkafter the fleshin the lust of uncleanness,anddespisegovernment.Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are notafraid to speak evil of dignities.
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Butthese,asnaturalbrutebeasts,madeto be takenanddestroyed, speak evilof the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perishin their owncorruption;
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And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riotin the day time.Spots they are andblemishes, sporting themselveswith their owndeceivings while they feast with you;
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Havingeyesfull of adultery,and that cannot cease fromsin;beguilingunstablesouls: an heart they haveexercised with covetous practices;cursedchildren:
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For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allurethrough the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were cleanescaped from them who liveinerror.
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Forif after they have escaped the pollutions of the worldthrough the knowledge of the LordandSaviourJesusChrist, they areagainentangledtherein,andovercome*, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
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For it had beenbetter for themnot to have known the way of righteousness,than, after they have known it, to turnfrom the holycommandmentdelivered unto them.
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But it is happened unto them according to the trueproverb, The dog is turnedto his ownvomitagain; and the sow that was washedto her wallowing in the mire.