彼得后书 2
1 从前在百姓中有假先知起来，将来在你们中间也必有假师傅，私自引进陷害人的异端，连买他们的主他们也不承认，自取速速地灭亡。
But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
2 将有许多人随从他们邪淫的行为，便叫真道因他们的缘故被毁谤。
Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.
3 他们因有贪心，要用捏造的言语在你们身上取利。他们的刑罚，自古以来并不迟延；他们的灭亡也必速速来到。
In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old does not linger, and their destruction is not asleep.
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to the lower parts of Sheol, and committed them to chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; (Tartaroō g5020)
5 神也没有宽容上古的世代，曾叫洪水临到那不敬虔的世代，却保护了传义道的挪亚一家八口。
and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;
6 又判定所多玛、蛾摩拉，将二城倾覆，焚烧成灰，作为后世不敬虔人的鉴戒；
and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7 只搭救了那常为恶人淫行忧伤的义人罗得。（
and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked
8 因为那义人住在他们中间，看见听见他们不法的事，他的义心就天天伤痛。）
(for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):
9 主知道搭救敬虔的人脱离试探，把不义的人留在刑罚之下，等候审判的日子。
the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;
10 那些随肉身、纵污秽的情欲、轻慢主治之人的，更是如此。 他们胆大任性，毁谤在尊位的，也不知惧怕。
but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to blaspheme the glories;
11 就是天使，虽然力量权能更大，还不用毁谤的话在主面前告他们。
whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord.
12 但这些人好像没有灵性，生来就是畜类，以备捉拿宰杀的。他们毁谤所不晓得的事，正在败坏人的时候，自己必遭遇败坏。
But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,
13 行的不义，就得了不义的工价。这些人喜爱白昼宴乐，他们已被玷污，又有瑕疵，正与你们一同坐席，就以自己的诡诈为快乐。
suffering the penalty as the wages of evil; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;
14 他们满眼是淫色，止不住犯罪，引诱那心不坚固的人，心中习惯了贪婪，正是被咒诅的种类。
having eyes full of adultery, and insatiable for sin, enticing unstable people, having a heart trained in greed. Children under a curse.
15 他们离弃正路，就走差了，随从比珥之子巴兰的路。巴兰就是那贪爱不义之工价的先知，
Forsaking the right way they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness.
16 他却为自己的过犯受了责备；那不能说话的驴以人言拦阻先知的狂妄。
But he was rebuked for his own transgression; a donkey that could not talk spoke with a human voice and stopped the irrationality of the prophet.
17 这些人是无水的井，是狂风催逼的雾气，有墨黑的幽暗为他们存留。
These are wells without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved.
18 他们说虚妄矜夸的大话，用肉身的情欲和邪淫的事引诱那些刚才脱离妄行的人。
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who actually escape from those who live in error;
19 他们应许人得以自由，自己却作败坏的奴仆，因为人被谁制伏就是谁的奴仆。
promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for a person is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
20 倘若他们因认识主—救主耶稣基督，得以脱离世上的污秽，后来又在其中被缠住、制伏，他们末后的景况就比先前更不好了。
For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Yeshua the Messiah, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
21 他们晓得义路，竟背弃了传给他们的圣命，倒不如不晓得为妙。
For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
22 俗语说得真不错： 狗所吐的，它转过来又吃； 猪洗净了又回到泥里去滚； 这话在他们身上正合式。
It has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire."
