從前在百姓中有假先知起來，將來在你們中間也必有假師傅，私自引進陷害人的異端，連買他們的主他們也不承認，自取速速地滅亡。
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
將有許多人隨從他們邪淫的行為，便叫真道因他們的緣故被毀謗。
And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed.
他們因有貪心，要用捏造的言語在你們身上取利。他們的刑罰，自古以來並不遲延；他們的滅亡也必速速來到〔原文作「也不打盹」〕。
And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
就是天使犯了罪，神也沒有寬容，曾把他們丟在地獄，交在黑暗坑中，等候審判。
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;
神也沒有寬容上古的世代，曾叫洪水臨到那不敬虔的世代，卻保護了傳義道的
if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
又判定
if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
只搭救了那常為惡人淫行憂傷的義人
and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked
（因為那義人住在他們中間，看見聽見他們不法的事，他的義心就天天傷痛。）
(for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard);
主知道搭救敬虔的人脫離試探，把不義的人留在刑罰之下，等候審判的日子。
then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
那些隨肉身、縱污穢的情慾、輕慢主治之人的，更是如此。他們膽大任性，毀謗在尊位的，也不知懼怕。
and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,
就是天使，雖然力量權能更大，還不用毀謗的話在主面前告他們。
whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord.
但這些人好像沒有靈性，生來就是畜類，以備捉拿宰殺的。他們毀謗所不曉得的事，正在敗壞人的時候，自己必遭遇敗壞。
But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,
行的不義，就得了不義的工價。這些人喜愛白晝宴樂，他們已被玷污，又有瑕疵，正與你們一同坐席，就以自己的詭詐為快樂。
suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you.
他們滿眼是淫色〔「淫色」原文作「淫婦」〕，止不住犯罪，引誘那心不堅固的人，心中習慣了貪婪，正是被咒詛的種類。
They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!
他們離棄正路，就走差了，隨從
Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing,
他卻為自己的過犯受了責備；那不能說話的驢以人言攔阻先知的狂妄。
but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet's madness.
這些人是無水的井，是狂風催逼的霧氣，有墨黑的幽暗為他們存留。
These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm. For them the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved.
他們說虛妄矜誇的大話，用肉身的情慾和邪淫的事引誘那些剛才脫離妄行的人。
For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.
他們應許人得以自由，自己卻作敗壞的奴僕，因為人被誰制伏就是誰的奴僕。
They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.
倘若他們因認識主──救主耶穌基督，得以脫離世上的污穢，後來又在其中被纏住、制伏，他們末後的景況就比先前更不好了。
For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
他們曉得義路，竟背棄了傳給他們的聖命，倒不如不曉得為妙。
For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
俗語說得真不錯：狗所吐的，牠轉過來又吃；豬洗淨了又回到泥裏去滾；這話在他們身上正合式。
What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”