2 Peter 2 Yet false prophets also birthed themselves (of themselves came to be) among the People, as also false teachers will exist (be) among you, who will stealthily introduce (bring in alongside; smuggle in) destructive choices (destructive sects or schools; losing heresies) even repeatedly denying (disowning; disclaiming) the Sovereign Owner purchasing them (buying them at the gathering or, market place), continuously bringing swift destruction upon themselves.

JMNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Yet false prophets also birthed themselves (of themselves came to be) among the People, as also false teachers will exist (be) among you, who will stealthily introduce (bring in alongside; smuggle in) destructive choices (destructive sects or schools; losing heresies) even repeatedly denying (disowning; disclaiming) the Sovereign Owner purchasing them (buying them at the gathering [or, market] place), continuously bringing swift destruction upon themselves. ² And many will follow out to (for; in; by) their outrageous behaviors (extravagant or licentious conducts), on account of whom (which ones) the Way [other MSS: the glory] of the Truth will be blasphemed (reproached; reviled), ³ and in greed (desire to take advantage in order to have more), by formed (molded; fabricated, and thus counterfeit) words they will exploit you (use you for business; market you; use you in trade and travel by sea), to whom (for which ones) the judgment (the evaluation; the separation by judicial sentence) from long ago (out of old times; forth from old) continuously is not inactive (is not constantly unemployed; is not continually being idle), and their loss (destruction) is not nodding in sleep (taking a nap). ⁴ For if God did (does) not spare agents failing to hit the mark (missing the target; or: sinning messengers), but rather gave (gives) them over into a judging of being repeatedly pruned (correctionally cut back) [reading with Aleph, A & other MSS; or, reading with p72, B, C & other MSS: by cords (bands; chains) of thick darkness], to being constantly watched over (kept), consigning [them] to Tartarus in dark, gloomy pits (caves; caverns). ⁵ And He did not spare [the] original ordered arrangement (a beginning world), but rather guarded (preserves) Noah, an eighth, a proclaimer (herald) of justice (righteousness; fair and equitable dealings according to the Way pointed out), bringing a deluge (a down-washing; an inundation) upon a world of ones without awe [or: bringing down a washing upon a system of irreverent (impious) ones], ⁶ and He condemned (condemns) [the] cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, reducing [them] to ashes for twisting down (or: by {in} and overthrow; to a turning down), having placed (set) an example (and exhibition; a specimen pointed out and set under view) of ones habitually being about to be irreverent (without awe) [other MSS: ... and example, to (for) ones without reverential awe, of things about to be], ⁷ and He drew to Himself righteous Lot (or: He Himself rescues Lot, a just one; or: He, for Himself, rescues Lot...), one being constantly worn down under the unrestrained and unprincipled ones (or, acts) within outrageous (extravagant; licentious) conduct (mode of living; turning back). ⁸ For the righteous one, continuously dwelling in their midst, in seeing (by a look) and in hearing from day to day, kept on testing [his] righteous soul on the touchstone by their lawless works (acts). ⁹ The Lord [=Yahweh], having seen, thus knows to continuously drag out of danger (rescue) a reverent one (one standing well in awe) from out of a trial [other MSS: trials], yet to constantly keep in custody (guard) unjust (unrighteous) ones into a day of judging, being repeatedly pruned (correctively chastened), ¹⁰ but especially (most of all) those continually passing from one place to another after flesh, in defiling (polluting; staining) lust (over-desire; full passion), even habitually thinking disparagingly (scorning; despising; down-thinking) of lordship (ownership; constituted authority). Presumptuous ones (audacious ones), self-pleasing ones (willfully arrogant ones), continuously blaspheming (slandering; defaming; speaking injuriously about) glories, ¹¹ whereas agents (messengers), continuously being greater in strength and power (ability), are not bringing blasphemous (slanderous) judging (distinction; discrimination; judgment; judicial process) down on (against) them before (beside) the Lord [=Yahweh]. ¹² But these, as irrational (wordless; reasonless) living ones (animals), being creatures of instinct having been born into (unto) taking (catching; capture) and corruption (decay; ruin), within which things, being continuously ignorant, they are constantly blaspheming (speaking slander, insult and abusive speech) within their corruption, and they will be ruined (spoiled; corrupted), ¹³ being ones habitually wronging themselves (or, reading as a pass. instead of a mid.: being wronged; suffering injustice) [other MSS: will be ones getting for themselves] -- a wage of unrighteousness (inequity; injustice; wrong; unobservance of the Way pointed out) -- ones continuously leading, considering the luxury (the softness; the daintiness; the aspect of being broken small; delicate living; effeminateness) in daytime (in broad daylight) a pleasure (enjoyment; gratification) -- spots (stains) and disgraceful flaws -- continuously living within luxury, within their delusions (deceptions) [other MSS: love-feasts]; ones repeatedly feasting (banqueting) together with you folks, ¹⁴ ones always having eyes very full of an adulteress, and unceasing regarding sin; ones by habit using bait to entrap unstable souls; ones constantly having a heart that has been exercised (trained in gymnastic discipline) regarding greed (desire for advantage and riches); children of a curse (or, a cursing). ¹⁵ By practice leaving behind (abandoning) [the] straight path (road; Way) they were (are) led astray (caused to wander), following out the path (road; way) of Balaam of Bosor [other MSS: Beor] who loved [the] wage of injustice (inequity; wrong-doing; unrighteousness; unobservance of the Way pointed out). ¹⁶ But he had an exposure and rebuke leading to conviction regarding his own transgression of law: a voiceless yoke-animal, emitting a sound in a voice of a man, hindered (checked) the insanity (madness; being beside one's thinking) of the prophet. ¹⁷ These are (exist being) waterless springs (springs without water), and clouds (mists; fogs) being constantly driven by (under) a storm (a squall), for whom the gloom of the darkness has been kept (being watched over and guarded). ¹⁸ For, continuously uttering over-swollen (over-weighted; extravagant; pompous) things pertaining to emptiness (vanity; futility), they are constantly using bait to trap, in cravings (full passions) of flesh by outrageous (licentious) behavior, those scarcely [other MSS: actually] fleeing from the ones habitually twisting themselves up in deception (in wandering); ¹⁹ while constantly promising freedom (liberty) to them, they themselves continuously subsist (originate below) being slaves of the corruption (the ruin; the decay) -- for by whom (or, by what) anyone has been, and now exists being, made inferior (less), to this one (by this thing) he has [some MSS +: also] been enslaved, and now exists as a slave. ²⁰ For if, fleeing from the stains (pollution; defilements) of the ordered system (world), within a full experiential knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, but yet being interwoven (intertwined) back again in (by) these things, they are continuing to be inferior (less; or, they are repeatedly worsted), the last things (situations; conditions) have come to be (been birthed) for them (to them; in them) worse than the first ones. ²¹ For it were better for them (it was existing better to {in} them) to have not known (not to have come to an experiential full knowledge of) the Way (road; path) of the fair and equitable dealing (justice; righteousness) than, fully knowing, to turn below (back) from out of [other MSS: to bend back, into the things which are behind, from] the set-apart (holy) commandment -- the one being given over (committed; delivered alongside) to them. ²² Now it has walked (stepped) together for them (to them; in them) -- the true proverb (saying; by-word): "a dog turning about upon its own vomit," and "a sow (hog), into a rolling (wallowing-place) of mire, bathing itself!"