将有许多人随从他们邪淫的行为，便叫真道，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.
他们因有贪心，要用捏造的言语，在你们身上取利。他们的刑罚，自古以来并不迟延，他们的灭亡也必速速来到（原文作也不打盹）。
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.
神也没有宽容上古的世代，曾叫洪水临到那不敬虔的世代，却保护了传义道的挪亚一家八口。
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;
因为那义人住在他们中间，看见听见他们不法的事，他的义心就天天伤痛。
(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
那些随肉身，纵污秽的情欲，轻慢主治之人的，更是如此。他们胆大任性，毁谤在尊位的也不知惧怕。
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.
他们离弃正路，就走差了，随从比珥之子巴兰的路，巴兰就是那贪爱不义之工价的先知。
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;
这些人是无水的井，是狂风催逼的雾气，有墨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.
倘若他们因认识主救主耶稣基督，得以脱离世上的污秽，后来又在其中被缠住制伏，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.
他为我们的罪作了挽回祭。不是单为我们的罪，也是为普天下人的罪。
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
人若说我认识他，却不遵守他的诫命，便是说谎话的。真里也不在他心里了。
He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.