2 Peter 2
1 False prophets came to the people, and false teachers will also come to you. They will secretly bring with them destructive heresies, and they will deny the master who bought them. They are bringing quick destruction upon themselves.
Fuerunt vero et pseudoprophetae in populo, sicut et in vobis erunt magistri mendaces, qui introducent sectas perditionis, et eum, qui emit eos, Dominum negant: superducentes sibi celerem perditionem.
2 Many will follow their sensuality, and through them the way of truth will be blasphemed.
Et multi sequentur eorum luxurias, per quos via veritatis blasphemabitur:
3 In their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. For a long time their condemnation has not been idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
et in avaritia fictis verbis de vobis negotiabuntur: quibus iudicium iam olim non cessat: et perditio eorum non dormitat.
4 For God did not spare the angels who sinned. Instead he handed them down to Tartarus to be kept in chains of lower darkness until the judgment. (Tartaroō g5020)
Si enim Deus angelis peccantibus non pepercit, sed rudentibus inferni detractos in tartarum tradidit cruciandos, in iudicium reservari. (Tartaroō g5020)
5 Also, he did not spare the ancient world. Instead, he preserved Noah, who was a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly.
Et originali mundo non pepercit, sed octavum Noe iustitiae praeconem custodivit, diluvium mundo impiorum inducens.
6 God also reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes and condemned them to destruction, as an example of what is to happen to the ungodly.
Et civitates Sodomorum, et Gomorrhaeorum in cinerem redigens, eversione damnavit: exemplum eorum, qui impie acturi sunt, ponens:
7 But as for the righteous Lot, he was oppressed by the sensual behavior of lawless people.
et iustum Lot oppressum a nefandorum iniuria, ac luxuriosa conversatione eripuit:
8 So that righteous man, who was living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul because of what he saw and heard.
aspectu enim, et auditu iustus erat: habitans apud eos, qui de die in diem animam iustam iniquis operibus cruciabant.
9 The Lord knows how to rescue godly men out of trials, and how to hold unrighteous men for punishment at the day of judgment.
Novit Dominus pios de tentatione eripere: iniquos vero in diem iudicii reservare cruciandos.
10 This is especially true for those who continue in the corrupt desires of the flesh and who despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are not afraid to blaspheme the glorious ones.
magis autem eos, qui post carnem in concupiscentia immunditiae ambulant, dominationemque contemnunt, audaces, sibi placentes, sectas non metuunt introducere blasphemantes:
11 Angels have greater strength and power, but they do not bring insulting judgments against them to the Lord.
ubi angeli fortitudine, et virtute cum sint maiores, non portant adversum se execrabile iudicium.
12 But these unreasoning animals are naturally made for capture and destruction. They do not know what they insult. They will be destroyed.
Hi vero velut irrationabilia pecora, naturaliter in captionem, et in perniciem in his quae ignorant blasphemantes in corruptione sua peribunt,
13 They will receive the reward of their wrongdoing. They think that luxury during the day is a pleasure. They are stains and blemishes. They enjoy their deceitful actions while they are feasting with you.
percipientes mercedem iniustitiae, voluptatem existimantes diei delicias: coinquinationis, et maculae deliciis affluentes, in conviviis suis luxuriantes vobiscum,
14 They have eyes full of adultery, they are never satisfied with sin. They entice unstable souls into wrongdoing, and they have their hearts trained in covetousness. They are cursed children!
oculos habentes plenos adulterii, et incessabilis delicti. Pellicientes animas instabiles, cor exercitatum avaritia habentes, maledictionis filii:
15 They have abandoned the right way and have wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved to receive payment for unrighteousness.
derelinquentes rectam viam erraverunt, secuti viam Balaam ex Bosor, qui mercedem iniquitatis amavit:
16 But he obtained a rebuke for his own transgression—a mute donkey speaking in a human voice stopped the prophet's insanity.
correptionem vero habuit suae vesaniae: subiugale mutum animal, in hominis voce loquens, prohibuit prophetae insipientiam.
17 These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. The gloom of thick darkness is reserved for them.
Hi sunt fontes sine aqua, et nebulae turbinibus exagitatae, quibus caligo tenebrarum reservatur.
18 They speak with vain arrogance. They entice people through the lusts of the flesh. They entice people who try to escape from those who live in error.
Superba enim vanitatis loquentes, pelliciunt in desideriis carnis luxuriae eos, qui paululum effugiunt, qui in errore conversantur:
19 They promise freedom to them, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For a man is a slave to whatever overcomes him.
libertatem illis promittentes, cum ipsi servi sint corruptionem: a quo enim quis superatus est, huius et servus est.
20 If they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
Si enim refugientes coinquinationes mundi in cognitione Domini nostri, et Salvatoris Iesu Christi, his rursus implicati superantur: facta sunt eis posteriora deteriora prioribus.
21 It would have been better for them not to know the way of righteousness than to know it and turn away from the holy commandment delivered to them.
Melius enim erat illis non cognoscere viam iustitiae, quam post agnitionem, retrorsum converti ab eo, quod illis traditum est sancto mandato.
22 This proverb is true for them: “A dog returns to its own vomit, and a washed pig returns to the mud.”
Contigit enim eis illud veri proverbii: Canis reversus ad suum vomitum: et, Sus lota in volutabro luti.
