2 Pedro 2

1 But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. 2 Many will follow their immoral*2:2 TR reads "destructive" instead of "immoral" ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned. 3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

4 For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus,*2:4 Tartarus is another name for Hell and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgment; 5 and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly, 6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live in an ungodly way, 7 and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked 8 (for that righteous man dwelling among them was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds), 9 then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, 10 but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries, 11 whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don’t bring a slanderous judgment against them before the Lord. 12 But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed, 13 receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you; 14 having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin, enticing unsettled souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children! 15 Forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing; 16 but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A speechless donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.

17 These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. 18 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error; 19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

20 For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again,"✝2:22 Proverbs 26:11 and "the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire."

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."