¹But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

¹Bilo je u narodu i lažnih proroka, kao što će i među vama biti lažnih učitelja, onih koji će prokrijumčariti pogubna krivovjerja, zanijekati Gospodina koji ih otkupi, i navući na se brzu propast.

²Many will follow their immoral TR reads “destructive” instead of “immoral” ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.

²I mnogi će se povesti za njihovim razvratnostima. Zbog njih će se kuditi put istine.

³In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

³U svojoj će vas lakomosti kupovati izmišljotinama. Njihova osuda već odavna nije dokona i propast im ne drijema.

⁴For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus Tartarus is another name for Hell , and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

⁴Doista, ako Bog anđela koji sagriješiše nije poštedio nego ih je sunovratio u Tartar i predao mračnom bezdanu da budu čuvani za sud;

⁵and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

⁵ako staroga svijeta ne poštedje, nego sačuva - osmoga - Nou, glasnika pravednosti, sručivši potop na svijet bezbožni;

⁶and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;

⁶ako gradove Sodomu i Gomoru u pepeo pretvori, osudi i za primjer budućim bezbožnicima postavi;

⁷and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked

⁷ako pravednog Lota, premorena razvratnim življenjem onih razularenika, oslobodi -

⁸(for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):

⁸pravedniku se doista dan za danom duša razdirala dok je gledao i slušao bezakonička djela onih među kojima je boravio -

⁹the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

⁹umije Gospod i pobožnike iz napasti izbaviti, a nepravednike za kaznu na Dan sudnji sačuvati,

¹⁰but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

¹⁰ponajpače one koji u prljavoj požudi idu za puti i preziru Veličanstvo. Preuzetnici, drznici i ne trepnu pogrđujući Slave,

¹¹whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don’t bring a railing judgment against them before the Lord.

¹¹dok anđeli, iako jakošću i snagom od njih veći, ne izriču protiv njih pred Gospodinom pogrdna suda.

¹²But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

¹²Oni pak kao nerazumne životinje, po naravi rođene za lov i istrebljenje, pogrđuju što ne poznaju. Istim će istrebljenjem i oni biti istrebljeni;

¹³receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

¹³zadesit će ih nepravda, plaća nepravednosti. Užitkom smatraju razvratnost u pol bijela dana. Ljage i sramote! Naslađuju se prijevarama svojim dok se s vama goste.

¹⁴having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

¹⁴Oči su im pune preljubnice, nikako da se nasite grijeha; mame duše nepostojane, srce im je uvježbano u lakomstvu, prokleti sinovi!

¹⁵forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

¹⁵Zabludiše, napustivši ravan put, te pođoše putom Bosorova sina Bileama, koji prigrli plaću nepravednosti,

¹⁶but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.

¹⁶ali primi i ukor za svoje nedjelo: nijemo živinče ljudskim glasom prozbori i spriječi prorokovo bezumlje.

¹⁷These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

¹⁷Oni su izvori bezvodni, oblaci vjetrom gonjeni; za njih se čuva mrkla tmina.

¹⁸For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

¹⁸Naklapajući naduvene ispraznosti, požudama putenim, razvratnostima mame one što netom odbjegoše od onih koji žive u zabludi.

¹⁹promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

¹⁹Obećavaju im slobodu, a sami su robovi pokvarenosti. Jer svatko robuje onomu tko ga svlada.

²⁰For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

²⁰Doista, pošto su po spoznaji Gospodina našega i Spasitelja Isusa Krista odbjegli od prljavština svijeta, ako se opet u njih upleću i daju se svladati, ovo im je potonje gore od onoga prvoga.

²¹For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

²¹Bilo bi im doista bolje da nisu spoznali puta pravednosti, negoli, pošto ga spoznaše, okrenuti leđa svetoj zapovijedi koja im je predana.

²²But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” Proverbs 26:11 and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”

²²Dogodilo im se što veli istinita izreka: "Pas se vraća svojoj bljuvotini i okupana svinja valjanju u blatu."