2 Pedro 2
1 E tambem houve entre o povo falsos prophetas, como entre vós haverá tambem falsos doutores, que introduzirão encobertamente heresias de perdição, e negarão o Senhor que os resgatou, trazendo sobre si mesmos repentina perdição.
But there were also false prophets among the people, as there will be teachers of falsehood among you also, who will cunningly introduce fatal divisions, disowning even the Sovereign Lord who has redeemed them, and bringing on themselves swift destruction.
2 E muitos seguirão as suas perdições, pelos quaes será blasphemado o caminho da verdade.
And in their immoral ways they will have many eager disciples, through whom religion will be brought into disrepute.
3 E por avareza farão de vós negocio com palavras fingidas: sobre os quaes já de largo tempo não está ociosa a condemnação, e a sua perdição não dormita.
Thirsting for riches, they will trade on you with their canting talk. From of old their judgement has been working itself out, and their destruction has not been slumbering.
4 Porque, se Deus não perdoou aos anjos que peccaram, mas, havendo-os lançado no inferno, os entregou ás cadeias da escuridão, ficando reservados para o juizo; (Tartaroō g5020)
For God did not spare angels when they had sinned, but hurling them down to Tartarus consigned them to caves of darkness, keeping them in readiness for judgement. (Tartaroō g5020)
5 E não perdoou ao mundo antigo, mas guardou a Noé, oitavo pregoeiro da justiça, trazendo o diluvio sobre o mundo dos impios;
And He did not spare the ancient world, although He preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a deluge on the world of the ungodly.
6 E condemnou á subversão as cidades de Sodoma e Gomorrah, reduzindo-as a cinza, e pondo-as para exemplo aos que vivessem impiamente;
He reduced to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and condemned them to overthrow, making them an example to people who might in future be living godless lives.
7 E livrou o justo Lot, enfadado da vida dissoluta dos homens abominaveis
But when righteous Lot was sore distressed by the gross misconduct of immoral men He rescued him.
8 (Porque este justo, habitando entre elles, affligia todos os dias a sua alma justa, vendo e ouvindo suas obras injustas);
(For their lawless deeds were torture, day after day, to the pure soul of that righteous man--all that he saw and heard whilst living in their midst.)
9 Assim, sabe o Senhor livrar da tentação os piedosos, e reservar os injustos para o dia de juizo, para serem castigados;
Since all this is so, the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from temptation, and on the other hand how to keep the unrighteous under punishment in readiness for the Day of Judgement,
10 E principalmente aos que segundo a carne andam em concupiscencias de immundicia, e desprezam as dominações; atrevidos, agradando-se a si mesmos, não receiando blasphemar das dignidades;
and especially those who are abandoned to sensuality--craving, as they do, for polluted things, and scorning control. Fool-hardy and self-willed, they do not tremble when speaking evil of glorious beings;
11 Ao passo que os anjos, sendo maiores em força e poder, não pronunciam contra elles juizo blasphemo diante do Senhor.
while angels, though greater than they in might and power, do not bring any insulting accusation against such in the presence of the Lord.
12 Mas estes, como animaes irracionaes, que seguem a natureza, feitos para serem presos e mortos, blasphemando do que não entendem, perecerão na sua corrupção,
But these men, like brute beasts, created (with their natural instincts) only to be captured or destroyed, are abusive in matters of which they are ignorant, and in their corruption will perish,
13 Recebendo o galardão da injustiça, tendo por prazer as delicias quotidianas, sendo nodoas e maculas, deleitando-se seus enganos, em ainda que se banqueteiem comvosco;
being doomed to receive a requital for their guilt. They reckon it pleasure to feast daintily in broad daylight. They are spots and blemishes, while feeding luxuriously at their love-feasts, and banqueting with you.
14 Tendo os olhos cheios de adulterio, e não cessando de peccar, engodando as almas inconstantes, tendo o coração exercitado na avareza, filhos de maldição,
Their very eyes are full of adultery--being eyes which never cease from sin. These men set traps to catch unstedfast souls, their own hearts being well trained in greed. They are fore-doomed to God's curse!
15 Os quaes, deixando o caminho direito, erraram seguindo o caminho de Balaão, filho de Bosor, que amou o galardão da injustiça;
Forsaking the straight road, they have gone astray, having eagerly followed in the steps of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was bent on securing the wages of unrighteousness.
16 Porém teve a reprehensão da sua transgressão; o mudo animal do jugo, fallando com voz humana, impediu a loucura do propheta.
But he was rebuked for his transgression: a dumb ass spoke with a human voice and checked the madness of the Prophet.
17 Estes são fontes sem agua, nuvens levadas pelo redemoinho do vento: para os quaes a escuridão das trevas eternamente se reserva. (questioned)
These people are wells without water, mists driven along by a storm, men for whom the dense darkness has been reserved.
18 Porque, fallando coisas mui arro- gantes de vaidades, engodam com as concupiscencias da carne, e com dissoluções, aos que se estavam affastando d'aquelles que andam em erro:
For, while they pour out their frivolous and arrogant talk, they use earthly cravings--every kind of immorality--as a bait to entrap men who are just escaping from the influence of those who live in error.
19 Promettendo-lhes liberdade, sendo elles mesmos servos da corrupção. Porque de quem alguem é vencido, do tal faz-se tambem servo.
And they promise them freedom, although they are themselves the slaves of what is corrupt. For a man is the slave of any one by whom he has been worsted in fight.
20 Porque se, depois de terem escapado das corrupções do mundo, pelo conhecimento do Senhor e Salvador Jesus Christo, forem outra vez envolvidos n'ellas e vencidos, tornou-se-lhes o ultimo estado peior do que o primeiro.
For if, after escaping from the pollutions of the world through a full knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, people are once more entangled in these pollutions and are overcome, their last state has become worse than their first.
21 Porque melhor lhes fôra não conhecerem o caminho da justiça, do que, conhecendo-o, desviarem-se do sancto mandamento que lhes fôra dado;
For it would have been better for them not to have fully known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandments in which they were instructed.
22 Porém sobreveiu-lhes o que por um verdadeiro proverbio se diz: O cão voltou ao seu proprio vomito, e a porca lavada ao espojadouro da lama.
Their case is that described in the true proverb, "A dog returns to what he has vomited," and also in the other proverb, "The sow has washed itself and now goes back to roll in its filth."
