¹Baina propheta falsuac-ere içan dirade populuaren artean, çuen artean-ere doctor falsuac içanen diraden beçala, ceinéc secretuqui sar eraciren baitituzte perditionetaco sectác: eta hec redemitu dituen Iauna vkaturen baituté, bere buruén gainera perditione lasterra erekarten duqueitelaric.

¹But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall be also among you false teachers, who shall bring in by the bye destructive heresies, and deny the master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction;

²Eta anhitz iarreiquiren çaye hayén insolentiey: ceineçaz eguiazco bidea blasphematurén baita.

²and many shall follow their dissolute ways, through whom the way of the truth shall be blasphemed.

³Halaco maneraz non auaritiaz enganiotaco hitzez merkatalgoa çueçaz eguinen baituqueite: ceinén gainera condemnationeac ia aspaldidanic ezpaitu berancen, eta ceinén perditionea ezpaitatza lo.

³And through covetousness, with well-turned words, will they make merchandise of you: for whom judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction slumbers not.

⁴Ecen baldin Iaincoac Aingueru bekatu eguin vkan dutenac guppida vkan ezpaditu: baina ilhundurataco cadenéz abysmaturic liuratu vkan ditu, iudicioco reseruaturic.

⁴For if God spared not [the] angels who had sinned, but having cast them down to the deepest pit of gloom has delivered them to chains of darkness [to be] kept for judgment;

⁵Eta lehenagoco mundua eztu guppida vkan, baina Noe, iustitia trompettaria bera çortzigarren beguiratu vkan du, dilubioa gaichtoen mundura erekarriric.

⁵and spared not [the] old world, but preserved Noe, [the] eighth, a preacher of righteousness, having brought in [the] flood upon [the] world of [the] ungodly;

⁶Eta Sodomaco eta Gomorrhaco ciuitateac ilhaunduric subuersionetara condemnatu vkan ditu, eta eguin vkan du exemplu liraden gaichtoqui vici liradenén.

⁶and having reduced [the] cities of Sodom and Gomorrha to ashes, condemned [them] with an overthrow, setting [them as] an example to those that should [afterwards] live an ungodly life;

⁷Eta Lot iustoa abominablén conuersatione dissolutionezcoaz fatigatua deliuratu vkan du.

⁷and saved righteous Lot, distressed with the abandoned conversation of the godless,

⁸(Ecen iusto hunec hayén artean habitatzen celaric ikustez eta ençutez egunetic egunera tormentatzen çuen bere bihotz iustoa, hayen obra gaichtoén causaz)

⁸(for the righteous man through seeing and hearing, dwelling among them, tormented [his] righteous soul day after day with [their] lawless works,)

⁹Badaqui Iaunac fidelén tentationetaric deliuratzen: eta iniustoén iudicioco eguneco tormentatu diradençát reseruatzen:

⁹[the] Lord knows [how] to deliver the godly out of trial, and to keep [the] unjust to [the] day of judgment [to be] punished;

¹⁰Eta principalqui haraguiari darreitzala, guthicia satsutara erorten diradenén eta guehientassuna menospreciatzen dutenén: hec audacioso eta bere buruéz pagu içanez, eztirade beldur dignitatéz gaizqui minçatzera.

¹⁰and specially those who walk after the flesh in [the] lust of uncleanness, and despise lordship. Bold [are they], self-willed; they do not fear speaking injuriously of dignities:

¹¹Aingueruéc, indarrez eta puissançaz handiago badirade-ere, eztute hayén contra Iaunaren aitzinean gaitzerraitezco sententiaric emaiten.

¹¹when angels, who are greater in might and power, do not bring against them, before the Lord, an injurious charge.

¹²Baina hauc, animal brutal bere sensualitateari darreitzanac beçala, hatzamaiteco eta deseguiteco eguinac dirade, aditzen eztituzten gauçác vituperatzen dituztela, bere corruptione beraz deseguinen dirade:

¹²But these, as natural animals without reason, made to be caught and destroyed, speaking injuriously in things they are ignorant of, shall also perish in their own corruption,

¹³Recebitzen dutela iniustitiazco saria, voluptatetan estimatzen dituztela egun orozco delicioac, thatchác eta maculác, dostatzen diradela bere enganioetan çuequin banquetatuz.

¹³receiving [the] reward of unrighteousness; accounting ephemeral indulgence pleasure; spots and blemishes, rioting in their own deceits, feasting with you;

¹⁴Beguiac adulterioz betheac dituztela, eta bekatu eguitetic guelditzen eztaquitela, arima inconstantac bazcatzen dituztela, bihotza auaritiatara exercitatua dutela, maledictionezco haour diradela:

¹⁴having eyes full of adultery, and that cease not from sin, alluring unestablished souls; having a heart practised in covetousness, children of curse;

¹⁵Bide çucena vtziric errebelatu içan dirade, Balaam Bosorensemearen bideari iarreiqui içanic, ceinec iniquitatezco sariari on eritzi baitzaraucan: eta bere iniquitateaz vençutu içan cen:

¹⁵having left [the] straight way they have gone astray, having followed in the path of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved [the] reward of unrighteousness;

¹⁶Ecen asto eme vztarrico batec voz humanoz minçaturic reprimi ceçan Prophetaren frenesiá.

¹⁶but had reproof of his own wickedness -- [the] dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the folly of the prophet.

¹⁷Hauc dirade ithurri vr gabeac, hodey haice buhumbaz erabiliac, eta ilhumbezco lanhoa seculacotz beguiratzen çaye.

¹⁷These are springs without water, and mists driven by storm, to whom the gloom of darkness is reserved [for ever].

¹⁸Ecen vanitatezco propos guciz arrogantac pronuntiatzen dituztela bazcatzen dituzté haraguiaren guthiciéz eta insolentiéz, erroretan conuersatzen dutenetaric eguiazqui ihes eguin çutenac:

¹⁸For [while] speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with [the] lusts of [the] flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error,

¹⁹Libertate hæy promettatuz berac corruptionearen sclabo diradelaric, ecen norçaz nehor vençutu içan baita, hura haren sclabo eguin içan da.

¹⁹promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is subdued, by him is he also brought into slavery.

²⁰Ecen baldin munduco satsutassunetaric retiratu diraden ondoan Iesus Christ Iaunaren eta Saluadorearen eçagutzeaz, guciagatic-ere berriz hetan nahassiric vençut baditéz, hayén azquen conditionea lehena baino gaichtoago eguin içan da.

²⁰For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world through [the] knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, again entangled, they are subdued by these, their last state is worse than the first.

²¹Ecen hobe vkan çuqueiten iustitiazco bidea ez lutén eçagutu, ecen ez eçaguturic hura, eman içan çayen manamendu saindutic guibeleratzea:

²¹For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known [it] to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

²²Baina hæy heldu içan çaye prouerbio eguiazcoz erraiten ohi dena, Ora itzuli içan da bere issurtze proprira: eta, Ahardi ikuciaitzuli içan da istilera iraulzcatzera.

²²But that [word] of the true proverb has happened to them: [The] dog [has] turned back to his own vomit; and, [The] washed sow to [her] rolling in mud.