2 Peter 222 PeterFalse teachersMurdock New Testament (Peshitta)

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1. Deliverance from False Prophets

   (Jude 1:3–16)

2. 1MURBut in the world, there have been also false prophets, as there will likewise be false teachers among you, who will bring in destructive heresies, denying the Lord that bought them; thus bringing on themselves swift destruction.BSBBSB: Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.
3. 2MURAnd many will go after their profaneness; on account of whom, the way of truth will be reproached.BSBBSB: Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed.
4. 3MURAnd, in the cupidity of raving words, they will make merchandise of you: whose judgment, of a long time, is not idle; and their destruction slumbereth not.BSBBSB: In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.
5. 4MURFor, if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to the infernal regions in chains of darkness, and delivered them up to be kept unto the judgment of torture,BSBBSB: For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
6. 5MURand spared not the former world, but preserved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the wicked;BSBBSB: if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;
7. 6MURand burned up the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and condemned them by an overthrow, making them a demonstration to the wicked who should come after them;BSBBSB: if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;
8. 7MURand also delivered righteous Lot, who was tormented with the filthy conduct of the lawless;BSBBSB: and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless
9. 8MURfor that upright man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing from day to day, was distressed in his righteous soul by their lawless deeds;BSBBSB: (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—
10. 9MURthe Lord knoweth how to rescue from afflictions those who fear him; and he will reserve the wicked for the day of judgment to be tormented,BSBBSB: if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
11. 10MURand especially them who go after the flesh in the lusts of pollution, and despise government. Daring and arrogant, they shudder not with awe while they blaspheme;BSBBSB: Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings.
12. 11MURwhereas angels, greater than they in might and valor, bring not against them a reproachful denunciation.BSBBSB: Yet not even angels, though greater in strength and power, dare to bring such slanderous charges against them before the Lord.
13. 12MURBut these, like the dumb beasts that by nature are for slaughter and corruption, while reviling the things they know not, will perish in their own corruption;BSBBSB: These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed.
14. 13MURthey being persons with whom iniquity is the reward of iniquity, and by them rioting in the daytime is accounted delightful; defiled and full of spots are they, indulging themselves at their ease, while they give themselves up to pleasure;BSBBSB: The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you.
15. 14MURhaving eyes that are full of adultery, and sins that never end; seducing unstable souls; and having a heart exercised in cupidity; children of malediction:BSBBSB: Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.
16. 15MURand, having left the way of rectitude, they have wandered and gone in the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of iniquity,BSBBSB: They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.
17. 16MURand who had for the reprover of his transgression a dumb ass, which, speaking with the speech of men, rebuked the madness of the prophet.BSBBSB: But he was rebuked for his transgression by a donkey, otherwise without speech, that spoke with a man’s voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.
18. 17MURThese are wells without water, clouds driven by a tempest, persons for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness.BSBBSB: These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
19. 18MURFor, while they utter astonishing vanity, they seduce, with obscene lusts of the flesh, them who have almost abandoned these that walk in error.BSBBSB: With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.
20. 19MURAnd they promise them liberty, while they themselves are the slaves of corruption: for, by whatever thing a man is vanquished, to that is he enslaved.BSBBSB: They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
21. 20MURFor if, when they have escaped the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and Redeemer Jesus the Messiah, they become again involved in the same, and are vanquished, their latter state is worse than the former.BSBBSB: If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.
22. 21MURFor it would have been better for them, not to have known the way of righteousness, than after having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that was delivered to them.BSBBSB: It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them.
23. 22MURBut the true proverb hath happened to them: the dog returneth to his vomit and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.BSBBSB: Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”

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