2 Peter 2
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The Judgment of False Teachers
1There were indeed false prophets # 2:1 Dt 13:1–5; Mt 7:15 among the people, just as there will be false teachers # 2:1 Ac 20:29; 2Co 11:13–15; Gl 2:4; 1Tm 4:1; 2Tm 4:3 among you. They will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought # 2:1 1Co 6:20; 7:23 them, and will bring swift destruction on themselves. 2Many will follow their depraved ways, and the way of truth will be maligned because of them. # 2:2 Rm 2:24 3They will exploit # 2:3 Jms 4:13 you in their greed # 2:3 Eph 5:3 with made-up stories. Their condemnation, # 2:3 Mt 12:41; 23:33; Rm 3:8 pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.
4For if God didn’t spare # 2:4 Rm 8:32; Jd 6 the angels who sinned but cast them into hell # 2:4 Gk Tartarus,# 2:4 Rv 20:2–3,10 and delivered them in chains # 2:4 Other mss read in pits of utter darkness to be kept for judgment; # 2:4 Mt 25:41 5and if he didn’t spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, # 2:5 Gn 5:29 a preacher of righteousness, and seven others, # 2:5 Lit Noah, the eighth, a preacher of righteousness,# 2:5 1Pt 3:20 when he brought the flood on the world of the ungodly; 6and if he reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah # 2:6 Gn 19:24; Jd 7 to ashes and condemned them to extinction, # 2:6 Other mss omit to extinction making them an example of what is coming to the ungodly; # 2:6 Is 1:9; Jd 15 7and if he rescued righteous Lot, # 2:7 Gn 19:16 distressed by the depraved behavior of the immoral 8(for as that righteous man lived among them day by day, his righteous soul was tormented by the lawless deeds he saw and heard # 2:8 Ps 119:136,158; Ezk 9:4) — 9then the Lord knows how to rescue # 2:9 1Co 10:13 the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, # 2:9 Mt 10:15; Jd 6 10especially those who follow the polluting desires of the flesh and despise authority. # 2:10–13 Jd 8–12
Bold, arrogant people! They are not afraid to slander the glorious ones; 11however, angels, who are greater in might and power, do not bring a slanderous charge against them before the Lord. # 2:11 Other mss read them from the Lord 12But these people, like irrational animals — creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed — slander what they do not understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed. 13They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are spots and blemishes, delighting in their deceptions # 2:13 Other mss read delighting in the love feasts while they feast with you. 14They have eyes full of adultery # 2:14 Mt 5:27–28 that never stop looking for sin. They seduce unstable people and have hearts trained in greed. Children under a curse! # 2:14 Jr 23:14; Hs 4:2; Eph 2:3; Heb 2:13 15They have gone astray by abandoning the straight path # 2:15 Ac 13:10 and have followed the path of Balaam, # 2:15 Nm 22:5–7; Dt 23:4; Neh 13:2; Jd 11; Rv 2:14 the son of Bosor, # 2:15 Other mss read Beor who loved the wages of wickedness # 2:15 Hs 9:1; Mc 1:7; Ac 1:18 16but received a rebuke for his lawlessness: A speechless donkey spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness. # 2:16 Nm 22:22–35
17These people are springs without water, mists driven by a storm. The gloom of darkness has been reserved for them. # 2:17 Jd 13 18For by uttering boastful, empty words, # 2:18 Jd 16 they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped # 2:18 Or people who are actually escaping from those who live in error. 19They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, since people are enslaved to whatever defeats them. # 2:19 Jn 8:34; Rm 6:16; 7:5 20For if, having escaped the world’s impurity through the knowledge of the Lord # 2:20 Other mss read our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, # 2:20 2Pt 1:2 they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first. # 2:20 Mt 12:45; Lk 11:26 21For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness # 2:21 Pr 8:20; 12:28; 16:31; 21:21; Mt 21:32 than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command # 2:21 Rm 7:12; 1Tm 6:14 delivered # 2:21 Jd 3 to them. # 2:21 Ezk 18:1–32; Heb 6:4–6; 10:26–27 22It has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to its own vomit, # 2:22 Pr 26:11,# 2:22 Pr 26:11 and, “A washed sow returns to wallowing in the mud.”
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2 Kefa 2
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1But there were also nevi'ei sheker (false prophets) among Am Yisroel just as also there will be morei sheker among you. These false teachers will secretly bring in heretical doctrines of koferim ba-ikkarim (deniers of fundamentals), producing machshelah (ruin), as these heretics even become meshummad, denying the Ribbono Shel Olam who redeemed them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 2And many will follow them in walking in darchei zimah (the ways of licentiousness), and because of them the Derech HaEmes will be libeled with lashon hora. 3And in their chomed (covetous) greed, they will exploit you with deceptive words. For them the Mishpat (Judgment) of old is not drei (idle) and their churban (ruin) does not slumber.
4For if Hashem did not spare malachim that sinned, but cast them into Gehinnom, consigning them to the sharsherot (chains) of choshech to be kept for Mishpat; 5And if Hashem, when he brought a mabbul (flood) upon the world of resha'im (evildoers), did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noach, the eighth of the nefashot#2:5 in the Teva (Ark) and a maggid of Tzidkanut (Righteousness); 6And if Hashem judged the cities of S'dom and Amora, reducing them to ashes by a churban catastrophe, making them a mofet (an example) for the ones intending to be resha'im; 7And if Hashem delivered Lot, a tzaddik distressed by the hitnahagut (conduct) of the mufkarim#2:7 2:8,10; 3:17 (lawless) walking in darchei zimah (the ways of licentiousness) 8— For that tzaddik, living among them day after day, was tortured in his nefesh hayesharah (honest soul) by the darchei mufkarim (the ways of lawless ones) that he saw and heard 9— Then Hashem knows how to rescue the chasidim from trial and how to preserve the anshei resha (men of wickedness) for punishment for the Yom HaDin, 10Especially the ones going after the basar (flesh) in ta'avah (lust) producing tum'a (defilement) and the ones despising kol samchut.#2:10 Mt 28:18 Bold and self-willed, these have no yirat Shomayim and therefore commit Chillul Hashem as they slander the glorious ones, 11Whereas malachim, being greater b'oz and koach (in strength and power), al kol panim (nevertheless) do not bring against them a slanderous judgment before Hashem. 12But these men, like irrational beasts born b'derech hatevah (naturally) to be caught and killed, commit Chillul Hashem in matters where they lack da'as. In the destruction of [the beasts], they also will be destroyed, 13Suffering harm as onesh (penalty) for harm done. They actually think there is ta'anug (pleasure) in reveling in broad daylight. They are mumim (defects) and spots reveling in their ta'nugot (evil pleasures) even while they sit at seudot (banquet dinners) with you. 14Having eyes full of ni'uf (adultery), ceaselessly committing averos (sins), enticing unstable nefashot (souls), having levavot trained in chomed (covetous) greed — banim mekulalim (accursed children)! 15Forsaking the Derech HaYashar (Straight Way), they went astray, having followed the Derech HaBil'am Ben-B'or, who loved the sachar haresha (reward of unrighteousness). 16But he had tochachah (reproof) for his own peysha (transgression): a dumb chamor (donkey), having spoken in a manʼs voice, hindered the madness of the meshuga navi.
17These men are mikva'ot without mayim and mists being driven by storms, for whom has been reserved the gloom of choshech (darkness). 18Using high sounding words of hevel, they entice, with licentious ta'avot of the basar, the ones barely escaped from those living in toyus (error) and delusion. 19They offer them the havtachah (promise) of cherut (freedom), but they themselves are avadim (slaves) of shachat (corruption), for whatever defeats a man also enslaves him. 20For if, having escaped the tumot (defilements) of Olam Hazeh by da'as of Adoneinu and Moshieinu Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, they are again entangled in these, then their last state is worse for them than their first. 21For better it was for them not to have da'as of the Derech HaTzidkanut (the Way of Righteousness) than, having known it, to turn away from the mitzvah hakedosha handed down to them. 22The word of the true mashal (proverb) has overtaken them: KECHELEV SHAV AL KE'O#2:22 Prov 26:11 (As a dog having returned to its own vomit), and a “chazir (swine) is washed only to wallow in the mud.”
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