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1 しかし、イスラエルの中には、にせ預言者も出ました。同じように、あなたがたの中にも、にせ教師が現われるようになります。彼らは、滅びをもたらす異端をひそかに持ち込み、自分たちを買い取ってくださった主を否定するようなことさえして、自分たちの身にすみやかな滅びを招いています。
Just like there were false prophets among the [Israeli] people [long ago], so there will also be teachers who teach false [things] among you. They will enter [your congregations] without you realizing [what/who they are], and they will [spiritually] injure some people by what they teach. Specifically, these teachers will even deny [that] the Lord [Jesus died to] pay [for the guilt of our sins]. As a result, they will soon destroy themselves [spiritually, and God will also punish them].
2 そして、多くの者が彼らの好色にならい、そのために真理の道がそしりを受けるのです。
And many [people] will behave in an extremely immoral manner, imitating the extremely immoral way [these teachers who teach false things] behave. As a result, [unbelievers] will (discredit the true message/say the true message is false).
3 また彼らは、貪欲なので、作り事のことばをもってあなたがたを食い物にします。彼らに対するさばきは、昔から怠りなく行なわれており、彼らが滅ぼされないままでいることはありません。
Because [the teachers of false teaching] want a lot of things that other people have, [they think that] by telling you stories that they themselves have (made up/invented), they will get money from you. [God decided] long ago [that he would] punish them, and he has not fallen asleep [LIT]! [He will certainly destroy them]!
God destroyed [LIT] the angels who sinned. He threw them into the worst place in hell and imprisoned them [there] in darkness in order to keep them there until he judges [and punishes them]. (Tartaroō g5020)
5 また、昔の世界を赦さず、義を宣べ伝えたノアたち八人の者を保護し、不敬虔な世界に洪水を起こされました。
He also got rid of [LIT] [the people who lived in] [MTY] the world long ago. He saved [only] eight of them, including Noah, who was a righteous preacher. God saved them when he destroyed in a flood [all] (the ungodly people/the people whose lives were not pleasing to him) [who were living then].
6 また、ソドムとゴモラの町を破滅に定めて灰にし、以後の不敬虔な者へのみせしめとされました。
He also condemned Sodom and Gomorrah [cities]; that is, he destroyed them by burning them completely to ashes. [By doing that] he gave a warning to those who afterwards would live in (an ungodly way/a way that is displeasing to him).
7 また、無節操な者たちの好色なふるまいによって悩まされていた義人ロトを救い出されました。
But he rescued [Abraham’s nephew], Lot, who was a righteous [man. Lot] was (greatly distressed/very sad) because the people [in Sodom] were doing very immoral things.
8 というのは、この義人は、彼らの間に住んでいましたが、不法な行ないを見聞きして、日々その正しい心を痛めていたからです。
That righteous [man’s] soul (was tormented/suffered great agony) day after day because he saw and heard those wicked people behave in a very lawless/wicked [manner when he was] living among them.
9 これらのことでわかるように、主は、敬虔な者たちを誘惑から救い出し、不義な者どもを、さばきの日まで、懲罰のもとに置くことを心得ておられるのです。
And since the Lord God [rescued Lot, you can be sure that] he knows how to rescue (other godly people/people whose lives please him) from their sufferings, and [he is able] to preserve (ungodly [people/people whose lives do not please him]), [whom he has started to] punish even now, until the time when he will [finish judging them and punish] them.
10 汚れた情欲を燃やし、肉に従って歩み、権威を侮る者たちに対しては、特にそうなのです。彼らは、大胆不敵な、尊大な者たちで、栄誉ある人たちをそしって、恐れるところがありません。
[He will punish especially severely] those [ungodly teachers who teach false things] who do the things that their self-directed nature desires, things that (defile them/cause them to be completely impure). Those [teachers of false teachings] despise [all beings who] rule [over them]. 2 Peter 2:10d-16 Because [those teachers of false doctrines are] extremely arrogant/proud [DOU], they (are not afraid to insult/boldly speak evil about) glorious beings [in heaven] (OR, glorious/wonderful beings [who rule over people]).
11 それに比べると、御使いたちは、勢いにも力にもまさっているにもかかわらず、主の御前に彼らをそしって訴えることはしません。
In contrast, angels do not insult [those teachers] when those teachers accuse the angels [of blasphemy] while the Lord God is watching, even though the angels are much more powerful [DOU] [than the teachers of false doctrines].
12 ところがこの者どもは、捕えられ殺されるために自然に生まれついた、理性のない動物と同じで、自分が知りもしないことをそしるのです。それで動物が滅ぼされるように、彼らも滅ぼされてしまうのです。
Because those [teachers of false doctrines are] like animals that cannot think [as humans do] [DOU], they say evil things about [spiritual] things which they know nothing about. [As a result], God will destroy them like [people] destroy [animals], [animals] that are born only in order to be hunted and killed {in order that [people] should hunt and kill them}.
13 彼らは不義の報いとして損害を受けるのです。彼らは昼のうちから飲み騒ぐことを楽しみと考えています。彼らは、しみや傷のようなもので、あなたがたといっしょに宴席に連なるときに自分たちのだましごとを楽しんでいるのです。
God will punish [those teachers] in return for the unrighteous actions/things that they have done. They even like (to carouse/to drink and revel noisily) in the daytime [as well as at night]. And as they indulge/enjoy themselves just like they want to while they are feasting with you, they cause you to become impure, [as] [MET] stains and blotches [DOU] [ruin a clean garment].
14 その目は淫行に満ちており、罪に関しては飽くことを知らず、心の定まらない者たちを誘惑し、その心は欲に目がありません。彼らはのろいの子です。
They [want to commit] [MTY] adultery [with every woman] whom they look at. They never stop seeking opportunities to sin. They entice/persuade those who are [spiritually] unstable [to join them in doing the sinful things that they do]. [Because of] their ever-increasing (greed/desire to have more and more things), they are doomed [to eternal punishment].
15 彼らは正しい道を捨ててさまよっています。不義の報酬を愛したベオルの子バラムの道に従ったのです。
They have (rejected good moral standards/quit doing what everyone knows is right). They have imitated [what the prophet] Balaam, the son of Bosor, [did long ago]. He, [acting very] unrighteously, wanted [the enemies of the Jews] to pay him if he [asked God] ([to curse/to do bad thing to]) [the Jews].
16 しかし、バラムは自分の罪をとがめられました。ものを言うことのないろばが、人間の声でものを言い、この預言者の気違いざたをはばんだのです。
But God rebuked him for having done that which was wrong [and for] behaving very foolishly. And even though donkeys do not speak, [God used] a donkey to hinder Balaam [by enabling it to] speak to him with a human voice.
17 この人たちは、水のない泉、突風に吹き払われる霧です。彼らに用意されているものは、まっ暗なやみです。
These [teachers who each false things mislead/deceive people by promising what they cannot do], as [MET] dried-up springs [mislead/deceive people by causing them to expect to get water from them]. They [mislead/deceive people] [MET] just like clouds that are blown along by strong winds [mislead/deceive people by causing them to expect rain, but no rain falls. Therefore], God has reserved the darkness of hell [for those teachers of false doctrines]. (questioned)
18 彼らは、むなしい大言壮語を吐いており、誤った生き方をしていて、ようやくそれをのがれようとしている人々を肉欲と好色によって誘惑し、
By boasting proudly as they make speeches that are worthless, they entice people who have recently [become believers and] have stopped doing the things that wicked people do. Urged on by their self-directed nature, they entice them [into sin] by encouraging them to [do] evil things.
19 その人たちに自由を約束しながら、自分自身が滅びの奴隷なのです。人はだれかに征服されれば、その征服者の奴隷となったのです。
[The false teachers] tell people that they are free [to do whatever they want to do, even though] they themselves are [like] slaves [MET] [because their own self-directed nature forces them to do] sinful things. [Think about these well-known words: “Whenever a person is controlled by something] {[something controls a person]}, [it is as though] that person has become a slave of what controls him.”
20 主であり救い主であるイエス・キリストを知ることによって世の汚れからのがれ、その後再びそれに巻き込まれて征服されるなら、そのような人たちの終わりの状態は、初めの状態よりももっと悪いものとなります。
Those [who teach false truths] learned about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. As a result, they stopped doing those things that (defile [people/cause people to become impure]) [spiritually]. Since they have begun to do [those evil things again], with the result that they are unable to stop doing them, they are in a worse condition than [they were in before they knew Jesus Christ].
21 義の道を知っていながら、自分に伝えられたそのきよい命令にそむくよりは、それを知らなかったほうが、彼らにとってよかったのです。
[Because God will severely punish them], it would have been better for them if they had never known what it means to live in a righteous way. It is too bad that although they knew [how to live in a righteous way], they stopped doing the things that God commanded people to do, the things that [were] taught to them ([by us apostles/by Christ]) {that ([we apostles/Christ]) taught to them}.
22 彼らに起こったことは、「犬は自分の吐いた物に戻る。」とか、「豚は身を洗って、またどろの中にころがる。」とかいう、ことわざどおりです。
[The way they are behaving again] is just like (the proverbs/what people often say): [They are like] dogs that return to [eat] their vomit, and [they are like] pigs that have been washed and then roll [again] in the mud.
