2 Peter 2
1 There were however also false prophets among the people as also among you there will be false teachers, who will stealthily introduce heresies destructive even the having bought them Master denying, bringing upon themselves imminent destruction;
But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
2 And many will follow after their (sensuality, *NK+O) through whom the way of the truth will be denigrated;
And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of.
3 And through covetousness with fabricated words you they will exploit, for whom the judgment of long ago not is idle and the destruction of them not (slumbers. *NK+o)
And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.
4 If for the God of [the] angels [who] having sinned not spared, but (in chains *NK+O) of gloomy darkness to Tartarus He delivered [them] for judgment (being kept, *N+kO) (Tartaroō g5020)
For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; (Tartaroō g5020)
5 and [the] ancient world not He spared, but one of eight Noah of righteousness a herald preserved [the] flood upon [the] world of [the] ungodly having brought in,
and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6 and [the] cities of Sodom and Gomorrah having reduced to ashes to destruction He condemned [them] an example of what is coming on (ungodly *N+kO) having set
and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, having made them an example unto those that should live ungodly;
7 and righteous Lot being distressed by the of the lawless in sensuality conduct He rescued;
and delivered righteous Lot, sore distressed by the lascivious life of the wicked
8 through seeing for and hearing that righteous [man] dwelling among them day after day in [his] soul righteous with [their] lawless deeds was tormented;
(for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed [his] righteous soul from day to day with [their] lawless deeds):
9 [then] knows [the] Lord [the] devout out of temptation to deliver, [the] unrighteous then unto [the] day of judgment being punished to keep,
the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgment;
10 especially then those after [the] flesh in [the] passion of defilement walking and authority despising. Bold, self-willed, glorious ones not they tremble blaspheming;
but chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise dominion. Daring, self-willed, they tremble not to rail at dignities:
11 whereas angels in strength and in power greater being not they do bring against them ([from the] Lord *N+KO) a reviling judgment.
whereas angels, though greater in might and power, bring not a railing judgment against them before the Lord.
12 These however like irrational animals (they were born *N+KO) as creatures of instinct for capture and destruction, in what they are ignorant of blaspheming in the destruction of them (also *no) (will be destroyed *N+kO)
But these, as creatures without reason, born mere animals to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters whereof they are ignorant, shall in their destroying surely be destroyed,
13 (suffering *N+KO) [as the] wage of unrighteousness. [as] pleasure esteeming in daytime carousal, blots and blemishes, reveling in the (deceptions *NK+o) of them feasting with you,
suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; [men] that count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceivings while they feast with you;
14 eyes having full of adultery and unceasing from sin, enticing souls unestablished, a heart exercised (in craving *N+KO) having — of a curse children!
having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of cursing;
15 (leaving *N+kO) (the *k) straight way they have gone astray, having followed in the way of Balaam [son] of Bosor, who [the] wage of unrighteousness loved,
forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the [son] of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing;
16 reproof however he had for his own transgression; [by] a donkey mute in a man’s voice having spoken it restrained the of the prophet madness.
but he was rebuked for his own transgression: a dumb ass spake with man’s voice and stayed the madness of the prophet.
17 These are springs without water (and *no) (mists *N+kO) by storm being driven, for whom gloom of darkness (into age *K) has been reserved. (questioned)
These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved.
18 Arrogant for of vanity speaking words they entice with [the] passions of [the] flesh to sensuality those (scarcely *N+KO) (escaping *N+kO) from those in error living,
For, uttering great swelling [words] of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;
19 freedom them promising, themselves slaves being of corruption; By what for anyone has been subdued, by that (and *ko) he has been enslaved.
promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage.
20 If for having escaped the pollutions of the world through [the] knowledge of the Lord (of us *N) and Savior Jesus Christ, in these now again having been entangled they are subdued, has become to them the last [state] worse than the first.
For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.
21 Better for it was being for them not to have known the way of righteousness than having known [it] (to have turned *N+kO) from the having been delivered to them holy commandment.
For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
22 Has happened (now *k) to them the [thing] of the true proverb: A dog having returned to [its] own vomit; and A sow having washed to [her] (rolling place *N+kO) in [the] mire.
It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.
