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forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrong-doing;
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but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with man`s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.
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These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
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For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
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promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by the same is he also brought into bondage.