15. They have forsaken the right way and have gone astray. They follow the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness,
16. but who was rebuked for his iniquity. The mute donkey speaking with a man’s voice constrained the madness of the prophet.
17. These men are wells without water and clouds that are carried by a storm, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved forever.
18. For when they speak arrogant words of vanity, they entice by the lusts of the flesh and by depravity those who barely escaped from those who live in error.
19. Although they promise them freedom, they themselves are slaves of corruption, for by that which a man is overcome, to this he is enslaved.
20. For if after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.