2 Peter 2
1 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there shall be among you lying teachers, who shall bring in sects of perdition, and deny the Lord who bought them: bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
されど民のうちに僞 預言者おこりき、その如く汝らの中にも僞 教師あらん。彼らは滅亡にいたる異端を持ち入れ、己らを買ひ給ひし主をさへ否みて、速かなる滅亡を自ら招くなり。
2 And many shall follow their riotousnesses, through whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
また多くの人かれらの好色に隨はん、之によりて眞の道を譏らるべし。
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their perdition slumbereth not.
彼らは貪慾によりて飾言を設け、汝 等より利をとらん。彼らの審判は古へより定められたれば遲からず、その滅亡は寢ねず。
4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but delivered them, drawn down by infernal ropes to the lower hell, unto torments, to be reserved unto judgment: (Tartaroō g5020)
神は罪を犯しし御使たちを赦さずして地獄に投げいれ、之を黒闇の穴におきて審判の時まで看守し、 (Tartaroō g5020)
5 And spared not the original world, but preserved Noe, the eighth person, the preacher of justice, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly.
また古き世を容さずして、ただ義の宣傅者なるノアと他の七人とをのみ護り、敬虔ならぬ者の世に洪水を來らせ、
6 And reducing the cities of the Sodomites, and of the Gomorrhites, into ashes, condemned them to be overthrown, making them an example to those that should after act wickedly.
またソドムとゴモラとの町を滅亡に定めて灰となし、後の不 敬虔をおこなふ者の鑑とし、
7 And delivered just Lot, oppressed by the injustice and lewd conversation of the wicked.
ただ無法の者どもの好色の擧動を憂ひし正しきロトのみを救ひ給へり。
8 For in sight and hearing he was just: dwelling among them, who from day to day vexed the just soul with unjust works.
（この正しき人は彼らの中に住みて、日々その不法の行爲を見 聞して、己が正しき心を傷めたり）
9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly from temptation, but to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be tormented.
かく主は敬虔なる者を試煉の中より救ひ、また正しからぬ者を審判の日まで看守して之を罰し、
10 And especially them who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government, audacious, self willed, they fear not to bring in sects, blaspheming.
別けて、肉に隨ひて、汚れたる情 慾のうちを歩み、權ある者を輕んずる者を罰することを知り給ふ。この曹輩は膽 太く放縱にして、尊き者どもを譏りて畏れぬなり。
11 Whereas angels who are greater in strength and power, bring not against themselves a railing judgment.
御使たちはかの尊き者どもに勝りて、大なる權勢と能力とあれど、彼らを主の御前に譏り訴ふることをせず。
12 But these men, as irrational beasts, naturally tending to the snare and to destruction, blaspheming those things which they know not, shall perish in their corruption,
然れど、かの曹輩は恰も捕へられ屠らるるために生れたる辯別なき生物のごとし、知らぬことを譏り、不義の價をえて必ず亡さるべし。
13 Receiving the reward of their injustice, counting for a pleasure the delights of a day: stains and spots, sporting themselves to excess, rioting in their feasts with you:
彼らは晝もなほ酒食を快樂とし誘惑を樂しみ、汝らと共に宴席に與りて、汚點となり瑕となる。
14 Having eyes full of adultery and of sin that ceaseth not: alluring unstable souls, having their heart exercised with covetousness, children of malediction:
その目は淫婦にて滿ち罪に飽くことなし、彼らは靈魂の定らぬ者を惑し、その心は貪欲に慣れて呪詛の子たり。
15 Leaving the right way they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam of Bosor, who loved the wages of iniquity,
彼らは正しき道を離れて迷ひいで、ベオルの子バラムの道に隨へり。バラムは不義の報を愛して、
16 But had a check of his madness, the dumb beast used to the yoke, which speaking with man’s voice, forbade the folly of the prophet.
その不法を咎められたり。物 言はぬ驢馬、人の聲して語り、かの預言者の狂を止めたればなり。
17 These are fountains without water, and clouds tossed with whirlwinds, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved.
この曹輩は水なき井なり、颶風に逐はるる雲霧なり、黒き闇かれらの爲に備へられたり。
18 For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness, those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error:
彼らは虚しき誇をかたり、迷の中にある者どもより辛うじて遁れたる者を、肉の慾と好色とをもて惑し、
19 Promising them liberty, whereas they themselves are the slaves of corruption. For by whom a man is overcome, of the same also he is the slave.
之に自由を與ふることを約すれど、自己は滅亡の奴隷たり、敗くる者は勝つ者に奴隷とせらるればなり。
20 For if, flying from the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they be again entangled in them and overcome: their latter state is become unto them worse than the former.
彼 等もし主なる救主イエス・キリストを知るによりて、世の汚穢をのがれしのち、復これに纏はれて敗くる時は、その後の状は前よりもなほ惡しくなるなり。
21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of justice, than after they have known it, to turn back from that holy commandment which was delivered to them.
義の道を知りて、その傳へられたる聖なる誡命を去り往かんよりは寧ろ義の道を知らぬを勝れりとす。
22 For, that of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog is returned to his vomit: and, The sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.
俚諺に『犬おのが吐きたる物に歸り來り、豚 身を洗ひてまた泥の中に轉ぶ』と云へるは眞にして、能く彼らに當れり。
