2 Peter 2
1 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.
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。
2 Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.
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。
3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old does not linger, and their destruction is not asleep.
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。
4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to the lower parts of Takhtaya, and committed them to chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; (Tartaroō g5020)
天主既然沒有寬免犯罪的天使，把他們投入了地獄，囚在幽暗的深坑，拘留到審判之時； (Tartaroō g5020)
5 and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Nukh with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;
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；
6 and turning the cities of Sedum and Amura into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
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，
7 and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked
只救出了那因不法之徒的放蕩生活而悲傷的義人羅特－－
8 (for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):
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－－
9 the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;
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，
10 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;
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，」
11 whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord.
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。
12 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,
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，
13 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;
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；
14 having eyes full of adultery, and insatiable for sin, enticing unstable people, having a heart trained in greed. Children under a curse.
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。
15 Forsaking the right way they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness.
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，
16 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.
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。
17 These are wells without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved.
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)
18 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;
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；
19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for a person is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
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。
20 For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Yeshua Meshikha, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
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，
21 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.
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。
22 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."
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。」
