假先知和假教师
从前在民间有假先知起来；同样，将来在你们中间也会有假教师，偷偷地引进使人灭亡的异端。他们甚至不认买他们的主人，自取迅速灭亡。
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2许多人会随从他们淫荡的行为，以致真理之道因他们的缘故被毁谤。And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3他们因贪婪，要用捏造的言语在你们身上取得利益。他们的惩罚，自古以来并不迟延；他们的灭亡也必迅速来到。And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
4既然神没有宽容犯了罪的天使，反而把他们丢在地狱里，囚禁在幽暗中等候审判；For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
5既然神也没有宽容上古的世界，曾叫洪水临到那不敬虔的世界，只保护了报公义信息的挪亚一家八口；And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6既然神判决了所多玛和蛾摩拉，将二城倾覆☛有古卷没有“倾覆”。，焚烧成灰，作为后世不敬虔人的鉴戒，And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
7只搭救了那常为恶人的淫荡忧伤的义人罗得—And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
8因为那义人住在他们当中，他正义的心因天天看见和听见他们不法的事而伤痛；(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
9那么，主知道搭救敬虔的人脱离试炼，把不义的人留在惩罚之下等候审判的日子，The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
10尤其那些随从肉体、放纵污秽的情欲、藐视主的权威的人更是如此。他们胆大任性，无惧地毁谤众尊荣者；
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
11就是天使，虽然力量权能更大，在对他们宣告从主来的审判的时候还不用毁谤的话☛“在对他们…的话”：有古卷没有“从主来的”；另有古卷是“还不用毁谤的话在主面前控告他们”。。Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
12但这些人好像没有理性的牲畜，生来就是要被捉拿宰杀的。他们毁谤自己所不知道的事，正在败坏人的时候，自己也遭遇败坏，But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
13为所行的不义受不义的工钱。他们喜爱白昼狂欢，他们已被玷污，又有瑕疵，正与你们一同欢宴，以自己的诡诈为乐。And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
14他们满眼是淫色，是止不住的罪，引诱心不坚定的人，心中习惯了贪婪，正是被诅咒的种类。Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
15他们离弃了正路，走入歧途，随从比珥☛有古卷是“比索”。的儿子巴兰的路；巴兰就是那贪爱不义的工钱的人，Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
16他却为自己的过犯受了责备，而那不能说话的驴以人的声音阻止了先知的狂妄。But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
17这些人是无水的泉源，是狂风催逼的雾气，有漆黑的幽暗为他们存留。These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
18他们说虚妄夸大的话，用肉体的情欲和淫荡的事引诱那些刚脱离错谬生活的人。For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
19他们应许人自由，自己却作了腐败的奴隶，因为人被谁制伏就是谁的奴隶。While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
20倘若他们因认识我们的主和救主耶稣基督而得以脱离世上的污秽，后来又被污秽缠住，被制伏，他们末后的景况就比先前更不好了。For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
21他们知道义路，竟背弃了传授给他们那神圣的诫命，倒不如不知道为妙。For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
22俗语说得好，这话正印证在他们身上了： “狗转过来吃自己所吐的；”又说： “猪洗净了，又回到烂泥里打滚。”But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.