你们心里若怀着苦毒的嫉妒和分争，就不可自夸，也不可说谎话抵挡真道。
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
在何处有嫉妒分争，就在何处有扰乱，和各样的坏事。
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
惟独从上头来的智慧，先是清洁，后是和平，温良柔顺，满有怜悯，多结善果，没有偏见，没有假冒。
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
亲爱的兄弟阿，我现在写给你们的是第二封信。这两封都是题醒你们，激发你们诚实的心。
This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
主要降临的应许在那里呢。因为从列祖睡了以来，万物与起初创造的时候仍是一样。
And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
他们故意忘记，从太古凭神的命有了天，并从水而出藉水而成的地。
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
主所应许的尚未成就，有人以为他是耽延，其实不是耽延，乃是宽容你们，不愿有一人沈沦，乃愿人人都悔改。
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
但主的日子要像贼来到一样。那日天必大有响声废去，有形质的都要被烈火销化。地和其上的物都要烧尽了。
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
这一切既都要如此销化，你们为人该当怎样圣洁，怎样敬虔，
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
他一切的信上，也都是讲论这事。信中有些难明白的，那无学问不坚固的人强解，如强解别的经书一样，就自取沈沦。
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.