de
Now
Egenonto
there were
kai
also
pseudoprophētai
false prophets
en
among
tō
the
laō
people ,
just
hōs
as
esontai
there will be
pseudodidaskaloi
false teachers
hymin
you .
hoitines
[They]
pareisaxousin
will secretly introduce
apōleias
destructive
haireseis
heresies ,
even
arnoumenoi
denying
ton
despotēn
Master
agorasanta
who bought
autous
them —
epagontes
bringing
tachinēn
swift
apōleian
destruction
heautois
on themselves .
-
polloi
Many
exakolouthēsousin
will follow in
autōn
their
tais
aselgeiais
depravity ,
di’
[and] because of
hous
[them]
hē
hodos
way
tēs
of
alētheias
truth
blasphēmēthēsetai
will be defamed .
In
pleonexia
their greed ,
emporeusontai
[these false teachers] will exploit
hymas
you
plastois
with deceptive
logois
words .
to
The
ekpalai
longstanding
krima
verdict
hois
against them
ouk
vvv
argei
remains in force ,
and
apōleia
ou
{does} not
nystazei
sleep .
gar
For
Ei
if
ho
Theos
God
{did} not
epheisato
spare
angelōn
[the] angels
hamartēsantōn
when they sinned ,
alla
but
tartarōsas
cast [them] deep into hell ,
paredōken
placing [them]
seirais
in chains
zophou
of darkness
tēroumenous
to be held
eis
for
krisin
judgment ;
ogdoon
among the eight ;
[if]
He did not spare
archaiou
[the] ancient
kosmou
world
epaxas
when He brought
kataklysmon
[the] flood
kosmō
[on its]
asebōn
ungodly [people] ,
ephylaxen
preserved
Nōe
Noah ,
kēryka
a preacher
dikaiosynēs
of righteousness ,
katekrinen
He condemned
poleis
[the] cities
Sodomōn
of Sodom
Gomorras
Gomorrah
katastrophē
to destruction ,
tephrōsas
reducing [them] to ashes
tetheikōs
[as]
hypodeigma
an example
mellontōn
of what is coming on
asebesin
the ungodly ;
errysato
[if] He rescued
Lōt
Lot ,
dikaion
a righteous [man]
kataponoumenon
distressed
hypo
by
aselgeia
depraved
anastrophēs
conduct
tōn
of the
athesmōn
lawless
(for
that
dikaios
righteous [man] ,
enkatoikōn
living
autois
them
hēmeran
day
ex
after
hēmeras
day ,
ebasanizen
was tormented
dikaian
[in his] righteous
psychēn
soul
anomois
[by the] lawless
ergois
deeds
blemmati
he saw
akoē
heard )—
Kyrios
[ if all this is so, then the ] Lord
oiden
knows how
rhyesthai
to rescue
eusebeis
[the] godly
ek
from
peirasmou
trials
tērein
to hold
adikous
[the] unrighteous
kolazomenous
for punishment
on
[the] day
kriseōs
of judgment .
[ Such punishment is ]
malista
specially [reserved]
tous
for those who
poreuomenous
indulge
. . .
miasmou
[the] corrupt
epithymia
desires
opisō
sarkos
[the] flesh
kataphronountas
despise
kyriotētos
authority .
tolmētai
Bold
authadeis
[and] self-willed ,
tremousin
they are unafraid
blasphēmountes
to slander
doxas
glorious beings .
hopou
Yet not even
angeloi
angels ,
ontes
[though]
meizones
greater
ischui
in strength
dynamei
power ,
pherousin
dare to bring
blasphēmon
such slanderous
charges
kat’
against
para
before
Kyriō
[the] Lord .
Houtoi
These [men]
[are] like
aloga
irrational
zōa
animals ,
physika
creatures of instinct ,
gegennēmena
born
halōsin
to be captured
phthoran
destroyed .
They blaspheme
in
[matters]
agnoousin
they do not understand ,
[and like such creatures]
tē
phthora
. . . ,
phtharēsontai
they too will be destroyed .
adikoumenoi
The harm they will suffer
misthon
[is the] wages
adikias
of [their] wickedness .
hēgoumenoi
They consider it
hēdonēn
a pleasure
tēn
tryphēn
to carouse
hēmera
broad daylight .
spiloi
[They are] blots
mōmoi
blemishes ,
entryphōntes
reveling
apatais
deception
syneuōchoumenoi
as they feast with
ophthalmous
[Their] eyes
echontes
are
mestous
full
moichalidos
of adultery ;
akatapaustous
their desire for sin is never satisfied
hamartias
. . . ;
deleazontes
they seduce
astēriktous
[the] unstable
psychas
. . . .
kataras
[They are] accursed
tekna
children
with
kardian
hearts
gegymnasmenēn
trained
pleonexias
in greed .
Katalipontes
They have left
eutheian
[the] straight
hodon
eplanēthēsan
and wandered off
exakolouthēsantes
to follow
hodō
tou
Balaam
of Balaam
Beōr
[son] of Beor ,
hos
who
ēgapēsen
loved
[the] wages
of wickedness .
But
eschen
he was
elenxin
rebuked
idias
for his
paranomias
transgression
hypozygion
by a donkey ,
aphōnon
[ otherwise ] without speech ,
phthenxamenon
that spoke
anthrōpou
a man’s
phōnē
voice
ekōlysen
[and] restrained
prophētou
prophet’s
paraphronian
madness .
eisin
pēgai
springs
anydroi
without water
homichlai
mists
elaunomenai
driven
lailapos
a storm .
zophos
Blackest
skotous
darkness
tetērētai
is reserved
for them
- .
hyperonka
With lofty
mataiotētos
[but] empty
phthengomenoi
words, they appeal
[to the] sensual
epithymiais
passions
of [the] flesh
deleazousin
[and] entice
those
oligōs
[who are] just
apopheugontas
escaping
from [others] who
anastrephomenous
live
planē
error .
epangellomenoi
They promise
eleutherian
freedom ,
autoi
while they themselves
hyparchontes
douloi
slaves
phthoras
to depravity .
toutō
dedoulōtai
a man is a slave
hō
to whatever
tis
hēttētai
has mastered him .
If
indeed
apophygontes
they have escaped
ta
miasmata
corruption
through
epignōsei
[the] knowledge
of [our]
Kyriou
Lord
Sōtēros
Savior
Iēsou
Jesus
Christou
Christ ,
only
emplakentes
to be entangled
hēttōntai
[and] overcome
toutois
by it
palin
again ,
eschata
final [condition]
gegonen
is
cheirona
worse than
[it was]
prōtōn
at first .
of righteousness
ē
than
epignousin
to have known [it]
hypostrepsai
and then to turn away
hagias
holy
entolēs
commandment
paradotheisēs
passed on
to them .
ēn
It would have been
kreitton
better
mē
not
epegnōkenai
to have known
Of them
paroimias
proverbs
symbebēken
alēthous
true :
Kyōn
“ A dog
epistrepsas
returns
epi
idion
[its]
exerama
vomit ,”
and ,
Hys
“ A sow
lousamenē
that is washed
[goes back] to [her]
kylismon
wallowing
borborou
in [the] mud . ”