2 Peter 2

1 Now 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 Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.

1 以往曾经有假先知在百姓中出现，将来在你们中间也同样会有假教师出现。他们暗地里引进使人灭亡的异端邪说，甚至否认那位买赎他们的主。这些人正迅速地自招灭亡。

2 Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed.

2 许多人会效法他们邪恶无耻的行为，致使真理之道被人毁谤。

3 In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.

3 他们贪婪成性，会用花言巧语在你们身上牟利。这种人的刑罚自古已经判定，他们很快就会灭亡。

4 For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;

4 即使天使犯了罪，上帝也没有容忍他们，而是把他们扔进地狱里，囚在幽暗的深坑等候审判。

5 if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;

5 上帝也没有容忍远古的世代，曾用洪水淹灭了世上不敬虔的恶人，只留下传讲公义的挪亚和他的七位家人。

6 if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;

6 上帝也审判了所多玛和蛾摩拉，将二城毁灭，烧为灰烬，作为以后不敬虔之人的警戒。

7 and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless

7 祂只拯救了因恶人的淫乱放荡而忧伤的义人罗得，

8 (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—

8 因为义人罗得住在他们当中，天天耳闻目睹他们的不法行为，他正直的心很痛苦。

9 if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.

9 可见上帝知道怎样拯救敬虔的人脱离试炼，把不义的人拘禁在刑罚之下，等候审判的日子，

10 Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings.

10 尤其是那些放纵污秽的情欲、轻视权柄的人。他们胆大妄为，肆无忌惮地毁谤有尊荣的。

11 Yet not even angels, though greater in strength and power, dare to bring such slanderous charges against them before the Lord.

11 即使力量和权能更大的天使都不在主面前用毁谤的话控告有尊荣的。

12 These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed.

12 但他们好像没有理性，生下来就是预备让人捉去宰杀的牲畜，对自己不懂的事也随口毁谤，最终必像牲畜一样被毁灭。

13 The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you.

13 他们多行不义，必自食恶果。他们喜爱在大白天寻欢作乐，是败类和渣滓，一面和你们同席，一面以欺骗为乐。

14 Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.

14 他们眼中充满淫欲，不停地犯罪，引诱那些信心不坚定的人。他们贪婪成性，实在是该受咒诅！

15 They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.

15 他们离弃正道，走入歧途，重蹈比珥之子巴兰的覆辙。巴兰贪爱不义之财，

16 But he was rebuked for his transgression by a donkey, otherwise without speech, that spoke with a man’s voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.

16 因自己的罪而受了责备。不能说话的驴竟然像人一样说起话来，制止了他狂妄的行为。

17 These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.

17 他们如同枯干的水井和被狂风吹散的雾气，有幽幽黑暗留给他们。

18 With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.

18 他们口出狂言，空话连篇，以肉体的邪情私欲为饵，诱惑那些刚刚摆脱了荒谬生活的人。

19 They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.

19 他们许诺给人自由，而自己却被败坏奴役，因为人被什么制服，就被什么奴役。

20 If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.

20 他们如果借着认识我们的主和救主耶稣基督，已经摆脱了世俗的污秽，但后来又被这些事缠住、俘虏了，结局会比以前更糟糕。

21 It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them.

21 他们明知道正路，却背弃了传给他们的神圣诫命，这样倒不如不知道的好。

22 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.”

22 俗语说得好：“狗转身吃自己所吐的；猪洗干净了，又回到污泥里去打滚。” 这些话正好用在他们身上。