³² Keep in mind Lot's wife.

²⁶ But Lot's wife, looking back, became a pillar of salt.

³⁸ But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.

³⁹ But we are not of those who go back to destruction; but of those who have faith even to the salvation of the soul.

¹⁸ For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;

¹⁹ Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.

²⁰ For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.

²¹ For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it.

²² They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.

¹⁷ And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction.

⁶ Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did.

⁷ Then do not go after false gods, as some of them did; as it is said in the holy Writings, After resting and feasting, the people got up to take their pleasure.

⁸ Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.

⁹ And let us not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did, and came to their death by snakes.

¹⁰ And do not say evil things against the Lord, as some of them did, and destruction overtook them.

¹¹ Now these things were done as an example; and were put down in writing for our teaching, on whom the last days have come.

¹² So let him who seems to himself to be safe go in fear of a fall.