2 Peter 3
1 This second epistle, my beloved, I now write to you; in both of which I stir up your honest mind by admonition:
朋友们，这是我写给你们的第二封信。在这两封信中，我都在试图激发你们，提醒你们用纯净的思想进行清晰的思考。
2 that ye may be mindful of the words which were formerly spoken by the holy prophets, and of the injunction of our Lord and Redeemer by the hand of the legates:
记住以往圣先知们说的话，以及主和救世主通过你们的使徒做出的嘱咐。
3 knowing this previously, that there will come in the last days scoffers, who will scoff, walking according to their own lusts;
首先应该要知道：在末世必有讥讽之人，他们充满嘲讽之心，追随自己的邪恶欲望。
4 and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for, since our fathers fell asleep, every thing remaineth just as from the beginning of the creation.
“那么他要降临的承诺哪去了？”他们问。“从我们祖先去世的那一刻，一切都像从创世之日开始往常一样继续。”
5 For this they willingly forget, that the heavens were of old; and the earth rose up from the waters, and by means of water, by the word of God.
但是他们故意忽略一个事实：天空是上帝下令在很久以前创造的。大地诞生于水，被水包围。
6 And, by means of these waters, the world which then was, being submerged again perished in the waters.
水摧毁了当时存在的世界，那个世界被水淹没。
7 And the heavens that now are, and the earth, are by his word stored up, being reserved for the fire at the day of judgment and the perdition of wicked men.
但是通过同样的神圣命令，眼前存在的天地被保留下来，留待审判之日被火毁灭，那时恶人也会被毁灭。
8 And of this one thing, my beloved, be not forgetful, That one day, to the Lord, is as a thousand years; and a thousand years, as one day.
但我的朋友们，别忘记：对主而言一天就像一千年，一千年就像一天。
9 The Lord doth not procrastinate his promises, as some estimate procrastination; but he is long suffering, for your sakes, being not willing that any should perish, but that every one should come to repentance.
主并没有像某些人以为的那样，将其承诺拖后，而是对你们非常耐心。他不希望任何人迷失，而是希望每个人都过来，都悔改。
10 And the day of the Lord will come, like a thief; in which the heavens will suddenly pass away; and the elements, being ignited, will be dissolved; and the earth and the works in it, will not be found.
但主的日子终将到来，就像盗贼一样出乎意料。天堂将在雷鸣般的轰鸣中爆炸，所有元素将被焚烧和毁灭。地球和大地上的一切都将消失。
11 As therefore all these things are to be dissolved, what persons ought ye to be, in holy conduct, and in the fear of God,
既然一切都将如此毁灭，你应该是哪种人？你应该过着纯洁的生活，献身于上帝，
12 expecting and desiring the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens being tried by fire will be dissolved, and the elements being ignited will melt?
期待并渴望上帝之日的到来。在那一天，天空会燃起大火并被毁灭，所有元素都会在高温中融化。
13 But we, according to his promise, expect new heavens, and a new earth, in which righteousness dwelleth.
但对我们而言，我们正在寻找上帝所承诺新天和新地，那里的一切都如此良善正直。
14 Therefore, my beloved, as ye expect these things, strive that ye may be found by him in peace, without spot and without blemish.
所以我的朋友们，既然你已经预料到这一切，请确保在看到你时，你是纯洁而无可指责的，与上帝和平相处。
15 And account the long suffering of the Lord to be redemption; as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom conferred on him, wrote to you;
请记住，是我们主的耐心给了我们救赎的机会。我们亲爱的兄弟保罗在他所有的书信中，曾用上帝赐予他的智慧向你解释了这一切。
16 as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which there is something difficult to be understood; and which they who are ignorant and unstable, pervert, as they do also the rest of the scriptures, to their own destruction.
他谈到了这些事情，尽管他所写的部分内容肯定很难理解。一些无知和不平衡之人歪曲他所写的内容，这让他们自己蒙受损失，正如他们歪曲其他经文。
17 Ye therefore, my beloved, as ye know these things beforehand, guard yourselves, lest, by going after the error of the lawless, ye fall from your steadfastness.
我的朋友们，既然你们已经知道了这些，就不要让恶人的错误引你们误入歧途，不要从自己牢固的位置上跌落。
The Great Flood
