2 Peter 3
1 This [is] now, beloved, a second letter I write to you, in both which I stir up your pure mind in reminding [you]
亲爱的弟兄啊，我现在写给你们的是第二封信。这两封都是提醒你们，激发你们诚实的心，
2 to be mindful of the sayings said before by the holy prophets, and of the command of us the apostles of the LORD and Savior,
叫你们记念圣先知预先所说的话和主救主的命令，就是使徒所传给你们的。
3 knowing this first, that there will come scoffers in the last days, going on according to their own desires,
第一要紧的，该知道在末世必有好讥诮的人随从自己的私欲出来讥诮说：
4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things so remain from the beginning of the creation”;
“主要降临的应许在哪里呢？因为从列祖睡了以来，万物与起初创造的时候仍是一样。”
5 for this they willingly conceal, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth having been established by the word of God out of water and through water,
他们故意忘记，从太古，凭 神的命有了天，并从水而出、借水而成的地。
6 through which the world then, having been flooded by water, was destroyed;
故此，当时的世界被水淹没就消灭了。
7 and by the same word, the present heavens and earth, having been stored up for fire, are being preserved until [the] day of judgment and destruction of impious men.
但现在的天地还是凭着那命存留，直留到不敬虔之人受审判遭沉沦的日子，用火焚烧。
8 And do not let this one thing be concealed from you, beloved, that one day with the LORD [is] as one thousand years and one thousand years as one day;
亲爱的弟兄啊，有一件事你们不可忘记，就是主看一日如千年，千年如一日。
9 the LORD is not slow in regard to the promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not intending any to be lost, but all to come to conversion,
主所应许的尚未成就，有人以为他是耽延，其实不是耽延，乃是宽容你们，不愿有一人沉沦，乃愿人人都悔改。
10 and it will come—the Day of the LORD—as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements will be dissolved with burning heat, and [the] earth and the works in it will not be found.
但主的日子要像贼来到一样。那日，天必大有响声废去，有形质的都要被烈火销化，地和其上的物都要烧尽了。
11 All these, then, being dissolved, what kind of persons ought you to be in holy behaviors and pious acts,
这一切既然都要如此销化，你们为人该当怎样圣洁，怎样敬虔，
12 waiting for and hurrying the coming of the Day of God, by which the heavens, being on fire, will be dissolved, and the elements will melt with burning heat?
切切仰望 神的日子来到。在那日，天被火烧就销化了，有形质的都要被烈火熔化。
13 And we wait for new heavens and a new earth according to His promise, in which righteousness dwells;
但我们照他的应许，盼望新天新地，有义居在其中。
14 for this reason, beloved, waiting for these things, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, to be found by Him in peace,
亲爱的弟兄啊，你们既盼望这些事，就当殷勤，使自己没有玷污，无可指摘，安然见主；
15 and count the long-suffering of our Lord [as] salvation, according as also our beloved brother Paul—according to the wisdom given to him—wrote to you,
并且要以我主长久忍耐为得救的因由，就如我们所亲爱的兄弟保罗，照着所赐给他的智慧写了信给你们。
16 as also in all the letters, speaking in them concerning these things, among which are some things [that are] hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable twist, as also the other Writings, to their own destruction.
他一切的信上也都是讲论这事。信中有些难明白的，那无学问、不坚固的人强解，如强解别的经书一样，就自取沉沦。
17 You, then, beloved, knowing before, take heed, lest, together with the error of the impious being led away, you may fall from your own steadfastness,
亲爱的弟兄啊，你们既然预先知道这事，就当防备，恐怕被恶人的错谬诱惑，就从自己坚固的地步上坠落。
The World is Destroyed by Water
