2 Peter 3
1 My friends, this is my second letter to you. In both of them I've tried to stir you up and remind you to think clearly with pure minds.
愛する者よ、われ今この第二の書を汝らに書き贈り、第一なると之とをもて汝らに思ひ出させ、その潔よき心を勵まし、
2 Remember the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets, and what the Lord and Savior commanded through your apostles.
聖なる預言者たちの預じめ云ひし言、および汝らの使徒たちの傳へし主なる救主の誡命を憶えさせんとす。
3 Above all you should know that derisive people will come in the last days, full of mockery and following their own evil desires.
汝 等まづ知れ、末の世には嘲る者 嘲笑をもて來り、おのが慾に隨ひて歩み、
4 “So what happened to this coming he promised?” they ask. “Right from the time our ancestors died, everything's continued as it always has, ever since creation began.”
かつ言はん『主の來りたまふ約束は何處にありや、先祖たちの眠りしのち、萬のもの開闢の初と等しくして變らざるなり』と。
5 But they deliberately ignore the fact that by God's command the heavens were created long ago. The earth came into existence from the water, and was surrounded by water.
彼らは殊更に次の事を知らざるなり、即ち古へ神の言によりて天あり、地は水より出で水によりて成立ちしが、
6 It was through water that the world that then existed was destroyed—through being flooded by water.
その時の世は之により水に淹はれて滅びたり。
7 But by means of that same divine command the heavens and the earth that now exist are reserved for destruction by fire at the day of judgment when the wicked will be destroyed.
されど同じ御言によりて今の天と地とは蓄へられ、火にて燒かれん爲に、敬虔ならぬ人々の審判と滅亡との日まで保たるるなり。
8 However, my friends, don't forget this one thing: that for the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like a day.
愛する者よ、なんぢら此の一事を忘るな。主の御前には一日は千年のごとく、千年は一日のごとし。
9 The Lord is not delaying the fulfillment of his promise, as some define delay, but he is being very patient with you. He doesn't want anyone to be lost, but everyone to come and repent.
主その約束を果すに遲きは、或 人の遲しと思ふが如きにあらず、ただ一人の亡ぶるをも望み給はず、凡ての人の悔改に至らんことを望みて汝らを永く忍び給ふなり。
10 However, the day of the Lord will come, unexpectedly like a thief. The heavens will explode with a thunderous roar, and the elements will be destroyed as they are burned up. The earth and everything in it will vanish.
されど主の日は盜人のごとく來らん、その日には天とどろきて去り、もろもろの天體は燒け崩れ、地とその中にある工とは燒け盡きん。
11 Since everything is going to be destroyed in this way, what kind of people should you be? You should be living lives that are pure, dedicated to God,
かく此 等のものはみな崩るべければ、汝 等いかに潔き行状と敬虔とをもて、
12 waiting expectantly and being eager for the coming of the day of God. That day the heavens will catch fire and be destroyed, and the elements will melt in the heat.
神の日の來るを待ち之を速かにせんことを勉むべきにあらずや、その日には天 燃え崩れ、もろもろの天體 燒け溶けん。
13 But as for us, we are looking for new heavens and a new earth that God has promised where everything is good and right.
されど我らは神の約束によりて、義の住むところの新しき天と新しき地とを待つ。
14 So, my friends, since you're anticipating these things, make sure you'll be found pure and blameless, and at peace with God.
この故に愛する者よ、汝 等これを待てば、神の前に汚點なく瑕なく安然に在らんことを勉めよ。
15 Remember that it is our Lord's patience that gives the opportunity for salvation. That's what our dear brother Paul was explaining to you in all his letters with the wisdom given to him by God.
且われらの主の寛容を救なりと思へ、これは我らの愛する兄弟パウロも、その與へられたる智慧にしたがひ曾て汝らに書き贈りし如し。
16 He spoke about these things, though some of what he wrote is certainly hard to understand. Some ignorant and unbalanced people have twisted what he wrote to their own loss—just as they do other scriptures.
彼はその凡ての書にも此 等のことに就きて語る、その中には悟りがたき所あり、無學のもの心の定らぬ者は、他の聖書のごとく之をも強ひ釋きて自ら滅亡を招くなり。
17 My friends, since you already know this, make sure that these errors of the wicked don't lead you astray, and you don't fall from your firm position.
されば愛する者よ、なんぢら預じめ之を知れば、愼みて無法の者の迷にさそはれて己が堅き心を失はず、
The Great Flood
