2 Pedro 2

He Poropiti Teka me ngā Kaiwhakaako Teka

1 Otirā, i ara ake anō he poropiti teka i mua i roto i te iwi, he pērā me ngā kaiwhakaako teka e puta ake ā mua i roto i a koutou; mā ēnei e mau puku mai ngā tītorehanga whakangaro. He whakakāhore nā rātou i te Ariki rawa, nāna nei rātou i hoko, ka hohoro tonu tā rātou taki mai i te whakangaromanga ki a rātou anō. 2 Ā, he tokomaha e aru i ā rātou tikanga whakarihariha; mā reira e kōrerotia kinotia ai te ara o te pono. 3 He apo moni hoki e tito kupu ai rātou kia whai taonga ai rātou i a koutou. Nōnamata te tukunga mō rātou ki te hē, e kore anō e whakaroa; kāhore hoki he moe o tō rātou whakangaromanga.

4 Mehemea kīhai i tohungia e te Atua ngā anahera i hara, engari i peia rātou e ia ki te pō, he mea herehere i te waro pōuri, he mea tiaki mō te whakawā; 5 ā, kīhai i tohungia te ao tawhito, he mea tiaki ia nāna a Noa, te kaikauwhau i te tika, rātou ko ētahi atu tokowhitu, i tāna kawenga mai i te waipuke ki te ao o te hunga karakiakore. 6 Ā, meinga ana ngā pā, a Horoma, a Komora, kia pungarehu rawa, ko tāna whakataunga hē he hurihanga, waiho iho hei tohu ki te hunga e noho karakiakore i ngā wā i muri. 7 Ko Rota ia, ko te tangata tika, whakaorangia ake e ia, i a ia e whakapōuritia ana e ngā ritenga whakarihariha a te hunga kino; 8 i taua tangata tika e noho ana i roto i a rātou, mamae ana tōna ngākau tika i ā rātou mahi kino, i tāna i kite ai, i tāna i rongo ai i tēnei rā, i tēnei rā. 9 Mātau tonu te Ariki ki te whakaora i te hunga karakia i roto i te whakamātautauranga, kia waiho ko te hunga hē mō ā te rā whakawā whiu ai. 10 Tērā rawa ia tāna mō te hunga e whai ana i tā te kikokiko, e haere ana i runga i te hiahia poke, e whakahāwea ana ki te rangatiratanga.

He hunga hīkaka, e whai ana i tā rātou ake; kāhore hoki e wehi ki te kōrero kino ki ngā tāngata nunui. 11 Tēnā ko ngā anahera, ahakoa nui ake tō rātou kaha, tō rātou mana, kāhore e puaki i a rātou he kupu whakatoi mō ērā i te aroaro o te Atua ina whakawā. 12 Ko ērā hoki, rite tonu rātou ki te kararehe kāhore nei he whakaaro, he mea māori anake, i hangā nei hei hopukanga, hei whakangaromanga. Kōrero kino ana rātou ki ngā mea kāhore nei e mōhiotia e rātou; ā, ka ngaro i runga i tā rātou tikanga whakamate; 13 ka whiwhi ki te utu o te hē.

He tangata e āhuareka ana ki te kakai awatea, he ira rātou, he makenu, e ruku ana ki ā rātou hākari ngahau i a rātou e hākari tahi ana me koutou. 14 Ko ō rātou kanohi kī tonu i te pūremu, kāhore hoki e mutu tō rātou hara; e poaina ana e rātou ngā hinengaro kāhore i ū. He ngākau tō rātou kua oti te whakamahi ki te apo. He tamariki kua oti te kanga. 15 Mahue ake i a rātou te ara tika, kotiti kē ana rātou, whai tonu ana i te ara o Paraama tama a Peoro, i whakapai nei ki te utu o te hē; 16 otirā, i rīria anō ia mō tōna hē. I kōrero te kararehe reokore, nō te tangata te reo, pēhia ana e ia te wairangi o te poropiti.

17 He puna waikore ēnei tāngata, he kapua e ākina ana e te tūpuhi; pōuri kerekere te wāhi kua rite mō rātou mō ake tonu atu. 18 E kōrero ana i ngā kōrero tetere rawa, he mea teka noa, ka poaina e rātou ki ngā hiahia o te kikokiko, ki ngā hiahia taikaha, te hunga e mawhiti mai ana i ērā e noho rā i roto i te hē. 19 He herekore tā rātou e whakaari nei ki a rātou, heoi, he pononga rātou nā te pirau; ki te taea hoki te tangata e te hoariri, hei pononga ia māna. 20 Ka mawhiti mai nei rātou i ngā poke o te ao, i a rātou ka mātau nei ki te Ariki, arā ki te Kaiwhakaora, ki a Īhu Karaiti, nā, ki te rorea rātou, ki te hinga rawa i aua mea, kino noa atu tō rātou whakamutunga i te tīmatanga. 21 He pai kē mō rātou me i kore e mātau ki te ara o te tika, i te mātau, ā, hei muri ka tahuri kē atu i te ture tapu kua tukua nei ki a rātou. 22 Heoi, te tukunga iho ki a rātou rite tonu ki tā te whakatauki pono, "Kua hoki te kurī ki tōna ruaki" me "Te poaka i horoi rā, kua okeoke anō i te paru."

1 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 shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of. 3 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 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; 5 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 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 delivered righteous Lot, sore distressed by the lascivious life of the wicked 8 (for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their lawless deeds): 9 the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgment; 10 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, though greater in might and power, bring not a railing judgment against them before the Lord. 12 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 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 having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of cursing; 15 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 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 mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved. 18 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 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 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 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 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.