彼得后书 2
1 从前在百姓中有假先知起来,将来在你们中间,也必有假师傅,私自引进陷害人的异端,连买他们的主他们也不承认,自取速速地灭亡。
But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2 将有许多人随从他们邪淫的行为,便叫真道,因他们的缘故被毁谤。
Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3 他们因有贪心,要用捏造的言语,在你们身上取利。他们的刑罚,自古以来并不迟延,他们的灭亡也必速速来到(原文作也不打盹)。
In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4 就是天使犯了罪,神也没有宽容,曾把他们丢在地狱,交在黑暗坑中,等候审判。
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5 神也没有宽容上古的世代,曾叫洪水临到那不敬虔的世代,却保护了传义道的挪亚一家八口。
if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6 又判定所多玛,蛾摩拉,将二城倾覆,焚烧成灰,作为后世不敬虔人的鉴戒。
if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7 只搭救了那常为恶人淫行忧伤的义人罗得。
and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8 因为那义人住在他们中间,看见听见他们不法的事,他的义心就天天伤痛。
(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9 主知道搭救敬虔的人脱离试探,把不义的人留在刑罚之下,等候审判的日子。
if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10 那些随肉身,纵污秽的情欲,轻慢主治之人的,更是如此。他们胆大任性,毁谤在尊位的也不知惧怕。
This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11 就是天使,虽然力量权能更大,还不用毁谤的话在主面前告他们。
yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12 但这些人好像没有灵性,生来就是畜类,以备捉拿宰杀的。他们毁谤所不晓得的事,正在败坏人的时候,自己必遭遇败坏。
But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13 行的不义,就得了不义的工价。这些人喜爱白昼宴乐,他们已被玷污,又有瑕疵,正与你们一同坐席,就以自己的诡诈为快乐。
They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
14 他们满眼是淫色(淫色原文作淫妇),止不住犯罪。引诱那心不坚固的人,心中习惯了贪婪,正是被咒诅的种类。
With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed--an accursed brood!
15 他们离弃正路,就走差了,随从比珥之子巴兰的路,巴兰就是那贪爱不义之工价的先知。
They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.
16 他却为自己的过犯受了责备。那不能说话的驴,以人言拦阻先知的狂妄。
But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey--a beast without speech--who spoke with a man's voice and restrained the prophet's madness.
17 这些人是无水的井,是狂风催逼的雾气,有墨黑的幽暗为他们存留。
These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
18 他们说虚妄矜夸的大话,用肉身的情欲,和邪淫的事,引诱那些刚才脱离妄行的人。
For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of sinful human nature, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error.
19 他们应许人得以自由,自己却作败坏的奴仆。因为人被谁制伏就是谁的奴仆。
They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity--for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
20 倘若他们因认识主救主耶稣基督,得以脱离世上的污秽,后来又在其中被缠住制伏,他们末后的景况,就比先前更不好了。
If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning.
21 他们晓得义路,竟背弃了传给他们的圣命,倒不如不晓得为妙。
It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them.
22 俗语说得真不错,狗所吐的,它转过来又吃。猪洗净了,又回到泥里去滚。这话在他们身上正合式。
Of them the proverbs are true: "A dog returns to its vomit," and, "A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud."