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;
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.
2 And many will follow after their (sensuality, *NK+O) through whom the way of the truth will be denigrated;
Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed.
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)
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.
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 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; (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,
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;
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
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;
7 and righteous Lot being distressed by the of the lawless in sensuality conduct He rescued;
and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless
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, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—
9 [then] knows [the] Lord [the] devout out of temptation to deliver, [the] unrighteous then unto [the] day of judgment being punished to keep,
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.
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;
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.
11 whereas angels in strength and in power greater being not they do bring against them ([from the] Lord *N+KO) a reviling judgment.
Yet not even angels, though greater in strength and power, dare to bring such slanderous charges 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)
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.
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,
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.
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!
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.
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,
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 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 transgression by a donkey, otherwise without speech, that spoke with a man’s voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.
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 men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
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,
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.
19 freedom them promising, themselves slaves being of corruption; By what for anyone has been subdued, by that (and *ko) he has been enslaved.
They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
