2 Peter 2
1 But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
されど民のうちに僞 預言者おこりき、その如く汝らの中にも僞 教師あらん。彼らは滅亡にいたる異端を持ち入れ、己らを買ひ給ひし主をさへ否みて、速かなる滅亡を自ら招くなり。
2 Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.
また多くの人かれらの好色に隨はん、之によりて眞の道を譏らるべし。
3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
彼らは貪慾によりて飾言を設け、汝 等より利をとらん。彼らの審判は古へより定められたれば遲からず、その滅亡は寢ねず。
4 For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgment; (Tartaroō g5020)
神は罪を犯しし御使たちを赦さずして地獄に投げいれ、之を黒闇の穴におきて審判の時まで看守し、 (Tartaroō g5020)
5 and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly,
また古き世を容さずして、ただ義の宣傅者なるノアと他の七人とをのみ護り、敬虔ならぬ者の世に洪水を來らせ、
6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live in an ungodly way,
またソドムとゴモラとの町を滅亡に定めて灰となし、後の不 敬虔をおこなふ者の鑑とし、
7 and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked
ただ無法の者どもの好色の擧動を憂ひし正しきロトのみを救ひ給へり。
8 (for that righteous man dwelling among them was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds),
（この正しき人は彼らの中に住みて、日々その不法の行爲を見 聞して、己が正しき心を傷めたり）
9 then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,
かく主は敬虔なる者を試煉の中より救ひ、また正しからぬ者を審判の日まで看守して之を罰し、
10 but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries,
別けて、肉に隨ひて、汚れたる情 慾のうちを歩み、權ある者を輕んずる者を罰することを知り給ふ。この曹輩は膽 太く放縱にして、尊き者どもを譏りて畏れぬなり。
11 whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don’t bring a slanderous judgment against them before the Lord.
御使たちはかの尊き者どもに勝りて、大なる權勢と能力とあれど、彼らを主の御前に譏り訴ふることをせず。
12 But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,
然れど、かの曹輩は恰も捕へられ屠らるるために生れたる辯別なき生物のごとし、知らぬことを譏り、不義の價をえて必ず亡さるべし。
13 receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;
彼らは晝もなほ酒食を快樂とし誘惑を樂しみ、汝らと共に宴席に與りて、汚點となり瑕となる。
14 having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin, enticing unsettled souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children!
その目は淫婦にて滿ち罪に飽くことなし、彼らは靈魂の定らぬ者を惑し、その心は貪欲に慣れて呪詛の子たり。
15 Forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;
彼らは正しき道を離れて迷ひいで、ベオルの子バラムの道に隨へり。バラムは不義の報を愛して、
16 but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A speechless donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.
その不法を咎められたり。物 言はぬ驢馬、人の聲して語り、かの預言者の狂を止めたればなり。
17 These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. (questioned)
この曹輩は水なき井なり、颶風に逐はるる雲霧なり、黒き闇かれらの爲に備へられたり。
18 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
彼らは虚しき誇をかたり、迷の中にある者どもより辛うじて遁れたる者を、肉の慾と好色とをもて惑し、
19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
之に自由を與ふることを約すれど、自己は滅亡の奴隷たり、敗くる者は勝つ者に奴隷とせらるればなり。
20 For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
彼 等もし主なる救主イエス・キリストを知るによりて、世の汚穢をのがれしのち、復これに纏はれて敗くる時は、その後の状は前よりもなほ惡しくなるなり。
21 For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
義の道を知りて、その傳へられたる聖なる誡命を去り往かんよりは寧ろ義の道を知らぬを勝れりとす。
22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”
俚諺に『犬おのが吐きたる物に歸り來り、豚 身を洗ひてまた泥の中に轉ぶ』と云へるは眞にして、能く彼らに當れり。
