2PETER chapter 2

2 Peter 2.

Beware of Teachers of heresy 

1. Moreover, false prophets will happen to be among the people, even as there are false teachers also among you. Some of who introduce/interpolate heresies and damnation, even by rejecting The Despots (Absolute Ruler), Who has bought/purchased them, and are swift to cause damnation upon themselves.

2. And many have followed after their lewdness, through whom the way of the Truth is blasphemed.

3. And by covetousness, they fabricated words out of the olden things, to merchandise you; whom their judgment of damnation will not be late. So, do not be sleepy.

Judgment will come upon False teachers

4. Because, if God will not spare, Angels who sinned, but are kept in chain, and delivered up into darkness of deepest abyss (tartaroo), for judgment;

5. And, men of ancient world were not spared, by bringing floods (inundation) upon the irreverent/impious world, but Noah the eighth (from Adam) , and the herald of righteousness, was preserved. 

6. And the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah (places near dead sea) were condemned to catastrophe of being reduced to ashes/incinerated; to be an example to those who are about to be impious/irreverent.

7. Even Lot, the righteous, was in turn strained/tired out, under the lewdness of the lawless (people);

8. because , the reports of their unlawful acts, from day to day in the sight of a righteous man, who settled down among them, vexed his righteous soul.

9. The SUPREME Lord knows HE will rescue the reverent people out of temptation; but wicked ones will be reserved unto judgment day, and be punished.

10. Especially those who travel/come afterwards, overbearing/self-pleasing, who are in lust of uncleanness of the flesh, also very daring to despise lordship, and never tremble to blaspheme the glory.

Wrong teachers are known by their conducts: ref. in Letter of Judah

11 even, Angel (Michael) at wheresoever, being great in strength and power, did not bring judgment besides The SUPREME Lord against HIS blasphemer (satan).

12 Howbeit, these ones, like irrational living things, naturally/physically born, unto being captured and being decayed, blaspheming what they are ignorant of, and will entirely perish in their decayed state.

13 commanding you to do wrong for wages, feasting/faring well together with you in wrong-doings for pleasure and tenderness/luxury, indulge in delusion/deceptions, even in their blemish and stains,

14 full unrestrained eyes to adulteresses, and holding on to sin, unstable/unfixed heart to be enticed; having souls trained (gymnazo) for greed --- what a children of curse!

15 Who immediately abandoned the way, and gone astray, to follow after the way of Balaam, a son of Beor (Moabite) who loved wages of injustice/wrong-doing;

16. however, he had a check on his own transgression by a dumb ASS uttering a clear sound in a man's voice, to forbid the insanity of the prophet.

17. These people are waterless fountain/well, a cloud driven under whirlwind, who are reserved for gloomy darkness .

Deception of the false teachers 

18. having shuned/avoided the error/delusion for a little while, they have turned around to speaking of enormous vanities, and in lewdness, they are enticed by lusts of flesh; 

19. being slaves to sub-rulers in a decayed state who are promising them freedom, because who defeat a person, to the same, he is enslaved.

20 because, if they have avoided the pollution of the world, by full discernment (epignosis) of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and were entangled and overcome again by those things, their latter state will become worse than their first state. 

21. No doubt, it would have been better for them, not to have acknowledged the way of Justification, than having acknowledged it, to turn back from the injunction of the HOLY ONE, delivered to them.

22 An adage has transpired to be true on them: a dog (kuon) has returned upon its own, and a sow bathed of excreta, into a rolling in quagmire.. (Prov 26:11).