Второе послание апостола Петра 2
1 Быша же и лживии пророцы в людех, якоже и в вас будут лживии учителие, иже внесут ереси погибели, и искупльшаго их Владыки отметающеся, приводяще себе скору погибель.2 И мнози последствуют их нечистотам, ихже ради путь истинный похулится.3 И в преумножении льстивых словес вас уловят: ихже суд искони не коснит, и погибель их не дремлет.4 Аще бо Бог аггелов согрешивших не пощаде, но пленицами мрака связав, предаде на суд мучимых блюсти:5 и перваго мира не пощаде, но осмаго ноа правды проповедника сохрани, потоп миру нечествовавших наведе:6 и грады содомския и гоморрския сжег, разорением осуди, образ хотящым нечествовати положив:7 и праведнаго лота, обидима от беззаконных в нечистоте сожития, избави.8 видением бо и слухом праведный, живый в них, день от дне душу праведну беззаконными делы мучаше:9 весть Господь блгочистивыя от напасти избавляти, неправедники же на день судныи мучимы блюсти,10 наипаче же вслед плотския похоти сквернения ходящыя и о господстве нерадящыя: продерзателе, себе угодницы, славы не трепещут хуляще:11 идеже ангели крепостию и силою больши суще, не терпят на ся от Господа укоризнен суд.12 Сии же, яко скоти животни естеством бывше в погибель и тлю, в нихже не разумеют хуляще, во истлении своем истлеют,13 приемлюще мзду неправедну, сласть мняще вседневное насыщение, сквернители и порочницы, питающеся лестьми своими, ядуще с вами,14 очи имуще исполнь блудодеяния и непрестаемаго греха, прельщающе душы неутверждены, сердце научено лихоимству имуще, клятвы чада:15 оставльше правый путь заблудиша, последовавше пути валаама восорова, иже мзду неправедну возлюби,16 обличение же име своего беззакония: подяремник безгласен, человеческим гласом провещавшь, возбрани пророка безумие.17 Сии суть источницы безводни, облацы и мглы от ветр преносими, имже мрак темный во веки блюдется.18 Прегордая бо суеты вещающе, прельщают в скверны плотския похоти, отбегающих всячески от них живущих во льсти,19 свободу им обещавающе, сами раби суще тления: имже бо кто побежден бывает, сему и работен есть.20 Аще бо отбегше скверн мира в разум Господа и спаса нашего Иисуса Христа, сими же паки сплетшеся побеждаеми бывают, быша им последняя горша первых.21 Лучше бо бе им не познати пути правды, нежели познавшым возвратитися вспять от преданныя им святыя заповеди.22 Случися бо им истинная притча: пес возвращься на свою блевотину, и: свиния, омывшися, в кал тинный.
2 Peter 2
The False Teachers’ Ungodly Lifestyle
1 But false prophets arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you.s These false teacherst wills infiltrate your midstt with destructive heresies,t even to the point oft denying the Master who bought them. As a result, they will bringt swift destruction on themselves.2 And many will follow their debauched lifestyles.t Because of these false teachers,t the way of truth will be slandered.t
3 And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Theirt condemnation pronounced long agot is not sitting idly by;t theirt destruction is not asleep.
4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned,t but threw them into hellt and locked them upt in chainss in utter darkness,t to be kept until the judgment,5 and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others,t when Godt brought a flood on an ungodly world,t6 and if he turned to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah when he condemned them to destruction,sts having appointedt them to serve as an examplet to future generations of the ungodly,t7 and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man in anguish over the debauched lifestyle of lawlesst men,t8 (for while he lived among them day after day, that righteous man was tormented in his righteous soult by the lawless deeds he saw and heardt)9 – if so,t then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from their trials,t and to reserve the unrighteous for punishmentt at the day of judgment,
10 especially those who indulge their fleshly desirest and who despise authority.
Brazen and insolent,t they are not afraid to insultt the glorious ones,t11 yet event angels, who are much more powerful,t do not bring a slanderoust judgment against them before the Lord.s12 Butt these men,t like irrational animals – creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyedt – do not understand whomt they are insulting, and consequentlyt in their destruction they will be destroyed,t13 suffering harm as the wages for their harmful ways.t By considering it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight,t they are stains and blemishes, indulgingt in their deceitful pleasures when they feast together with you.14 Their eyes,t full of adultery,t never stop sinning;t they enticet unstable people.t They have trained their hearts for greed, these cursed children!t15 By forsaking the right path they have gone astray, because they followed the way of Balaam son of Bosor,t who loved the wages of unrighteousness,t
16 yet was rebukedt for his own transgression (a dumb donkey,t speaking with a human voice,t restrained the prophet’s madness).s
17 These ment are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm, for whom the utter depths of darknesst have been reserved.18 For by speaking high-sounding but empty wordst they are able to entice,t with fleshly desires and with debauchery,t peoplet who have just escapedt from those who reside in error.t19 Although these false teachers promiset such peoplet freedom, they themselves are enslaved tot immorality.t For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.t20 For if after they have escaped the filthy thingst of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,s theyt again get entangled in them and succumb to them,t their last state has become worse for them than their first.21 For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them.
22 They are illustrations of this true proverb:t “A dog returns to its own vomit,”t and “A sow, after washing herself,t wallows in the mire.”t