¹⁶ The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.

¹⁴ Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

¹² These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,

¹⁹ They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.

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.

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

²⁶ For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins,

²⁷ But only a great fear of being judged, and of the fire of wrath which will be the destruction of the haters of God.

⁴ As for those who at one time saw the light, tasting the good things from heaven, and having their part in the Holy Spirit,

⁵ With knowledge of the good word of God, and of the powers of the coming time,

⁶ And then let themselves be turned away, it is not possible for their hearts to be made new a second time; because they themselves put the Son of God on the cross again, openly shaming him.

¹ And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,

¹⁹ And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.

²⁰ The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.

⁶ And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.

²⁰ Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.

¹⁸ But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.

²⁶ For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.

²⁷ Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.

¹⁸ For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

¹⁹ Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:

⁵ But as for such as are turned out of the straight way, the Lord will take them away with the workers of evil. Let peace be on Israel.