彼得後書 2
1 從前連在選民中，也有過假先知；同樣，將來在你們中，也要出現假教師，他們要倡導使人喪亡的異端，連救贖他們的主，也都敢否認：這是自取迅速的喪亡。
BUT there were false prophets in the world, as also among you there will be false teachers, they who introduce heresies of destruction, and, the Lord who bought them denying, bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 有許多人將要隨從他們的放蕩，甚至真理之道，也要因他們而受到誹謗。
And many will go after their wickedness; they, on account of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.
3 他們因貪吝成性，要以花言巧語在你們身上營利；可是他們的案件自古以來，就未安閒，他們的喪亡也決不稍息。
And with fraudulency of deceptive words will they make merchandise of you; they, whose judgment (denounced) before tarrieth not, and whose destruction doth not sleep.
For if Aloha upon the angels who sinned was not lenient, but in chains of darkness shut them in the deeps, and delivered them to be kept to the judgment of pain; (Tartaroō g5020)
5 既然沒有寬免古時的世界，曾引來洪水淹滅了惡人的世界，只保存了宣講正義的諾厄一家八口；
and on the former world was not lenient, but Nuch, who was the eighth preacher of righteousness, he preserved, when the deluge came upon the world of the wicked;
6 又降罰了索多瑪和哈摩辣城，使之化為灰燼，至於毀滅，以作後世作惡者的鑑戒，
the cities of Sadum and of Omuro he burned, and with overthrow condemned them, while an example to the wicked who should be he set them;
7 只救出了那因不法之徒的放蕩生活而悲傷的義人羅特－－
also Lut the righteous, who was bruised with the impure conversation of the lawless, he delivered;
8 因為這義人住在他們中，他正直的靈魂，天天因所見所聞的不法行為，感到苦惱－－
-for in sight and in hearing, while (that) just (man) dwelt among them, from day to day, his righteous soul by their lawless works was tortured; -
9 那麼，上主自然也知道拯救虔誠的人，脫離磨難，而存留不義的人，等候審判的日子受處罰，
the Lord knoweth how to deliver from affliction them who fear him, but the evil unto the day of judgment to be tormented will he reserve.
10 尤其是存留那些隨從肉慾，而生活在污穢情慾中的人，以及那些輕視「 主權者」的人。他們都是些膽大驕傲的人，竟不怕褻瀆「眾尊榮者，」
But most those who after the flesh follow the concupiscence of impurity, and of authority are contemptuous; daring and arrogant, (and) who by greatness are not moved while they blaspheme:
11 就是連力量德能大於他們的天使，也不敢在上主面前，以侮辱的言詞對他們下判決。
whereas angels, who in power and strength are (so much) greater than they, bring not against them a judgment of blasphemy.
12 然而這些人實在如無理性的牲畜，生來就是為受捉拿，受宰殺，凡他們不明白的事就要褻瀆；他們必要如牲畜一樣喪亡，
But these, as the dumb animals, by nature (ordained) to the knife and to destruction, blaspheming what they know not, in their own destruction will be destroyed;
13 受他們不義的報應。他們只以一日的享受為快樂，實是些污穢骯髒的人；當他們同你們宴樂時，縱情於淫樂；
while they in whom is iniquity the wages of iniquity shall receive. They repute as pleasure the luxury which is in the day. Blemishes (are they), full of spots, who delighting in their refreshments are luxurious:
14 他們滿眼邪色，犯罪不饜，勾引意志薄弱的人；他們的心習慣了貪吝，真是些應受咒罵的人。
having eyes full of adultery, and sins which cease not, alluring souls that are not established. An heart have they which is disciplined in covetousness; sons of malediction,
15 他們離棄正道，走入了歧途，隨從了貝敖爾的兒子巴郎的道路，他曾貪愛過不義的酬報，
who, forsaking the straight way, have erred, and gone in the way of Belam bar Beur, who the wages of iniquity loved. But he had reproof of his transgression;
16 可是也受了他作惡的責罰：一個不會說話的牲口，竟用人的聲音說了話，制止了這先知的妄為。
(for) the dumb ass which spake with the voice of man rebuked the madness of the prophet.
17 他們像無水的泉源，又像為狂風所飄颺的雲霧：為他們所存留的，是黑暗的幽冥。 (questioned)
These are wells without water, clouds driven from above, unto whom the blackness of darkness is reserved.
18 因為他們好講虛 偽的大話，用肉慾的放蕩為餌，勾引那些剛纔擺脫錯謬生活的人；
For while they speak scoffing words of vanity, they allure with impure desires of the flesh those who almost escaped from them who have their conversation in error.
19 應許他們自由，自己卻是敗壞的奴隸，因為人被誰制勝，就是誰的奴隸。
And liberty to them they promise, while they (themselves) are the servants of corruption; for the thing by which a man is overcome, to that he is subject.
20 如果他們因認識主和救世者耶穌基督，而擺脫世俗的污穢以後，再為這些事所纏繞而打敗，他們末後的處境，就必比以前的更為惡劣，
For if they have escaped from the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jeshu Meshiha, with those very things entangled they are again over-come, their end becomes worse than the beginning.
21 因為不認識正義之道，比認識後 而又背棄那傳授給他們的聖誡命，為他們倒好得多。
For it had been more tolerable for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, when they knew, to turn backward from the holy commandment delivered to them.
22 在他們身上正應驗了這句恰當的俗語：「狗嘔吐的，牠又回來再吃；」又「母豬洗淨了，又到污泥裏打滾。」
But it hath happened to them according to the true proverb, that The dog hath turned unto his vomit; the sow which had washed into the wallow of the mire.
