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.

¹Si zik llan lenbiya n lekdeb ger lɣaci, akken daɣen ara d-kkren gar-awen wid ara kkun-iɣuṛṛen s uselmed-nsen. A d-skecmen tamusni-nsen n lekdeb d usexṛeb, ad nekṛen ula d amsellek i ten-id-icufɛen ; s wakka ara d-sseɣlin ɣef yiman-nsen tawaɣit ur bnin fell-as.

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

²Ɣas akken ffɣen i webrid, aṭas ara ten-iḍefṛen, ɣef ddemma-nsen ara ițwargem webrid n tideț ;

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

³a ten-yawi ṭṭmeɛ, a wen kellxen s imeslayen n lekdeb ; meɛna nnger-nsen ur ițɛeṭṭil ara, tawaɣit tețṛaǧu-ten.

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;

⁴Teẓram belli Sidi Ṛebbi ur iḥunn ara ɣef lmalayekkat yeffɣen i webrid, meɛna iḍeggeṛ-iten ɣer tesraft lqayen n ṭṭlam anda țwaqnent, țṛaǧunt lḥisab.

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;

⁵Ur iḥunn ara daɣen ɣef yemdanen n zzman aqdim asm' akken i sen-d iceggeɛ lḥemla n waman i lɣaci amcum ; issemneɛ seg-sen anagar Sidna Nuḥ ițbecciṛen lḥeqq n Sidi Ṛebbi, akk-d sebɛa n yemdanen yid-es.

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;

⁶Iɛuqeb timdinin n Sudum d Gumuṛ, issenger-itent, isxeḍ-itent s tmes, yerra-tent d iɣed ; ifka-d ayagi d lemtel i yemcumen iwakken ad ẓren d acu i ten-ițṛaǧun.

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

⁷Issemneɛ anagar Luṭ yellan d aḥeqqi, yemmuɣbnen ɣef yir lecɣal n lɣaci amcum yellan di zzman-is.

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

⁸Argaz-agi aḥeqqi ițɛicin gar-asen, itețț-it wul-is ɣef ayen i gsell d wayen țwalint wallen-is yal ass, ɣef yir tikli nsen d yir lecɣal-nsen.

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

⁹S wakka Sidi Ṛebbi yeẓra amek ara isellek di teswiɛin iweɛṛen imdanen i gțeklen fell-as ; ma d imcumen a ten-yerr ɣer rrif i lɛiqab i d-iteddun ass n lḥisab.

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;

¹⁰Ad iɛaqeb widak-nni i gxeddmen lefsad, ițnadin anagar lebɣi n tnefsit-nsen, imi ur țțaken ara lqima i lhiba n Sidi Ṛebbi. Ur țqadaṛen ara, qebbḥen, ur uggaden ara ad regmen ula d lmalayekkat.

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

¹¹Ma d lmalayekkat yesɛan lqeḍra ț-țezmert sennig wid yesselmaden lekdeb, ur sen-țarrant ara rregmat zdat Sidi Ṛebbi.

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,

¹²Meɛna imdanen-agi țɛicin am lmal n lexla, lhan kan i ṣṣyada, ur țxemmimen ara, reggmen ayen ur ssinen ; ad ɣlin di tesraft n ddnubat nsen, ad mmuṛdsen akken ițmuṛdus lmal.

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;

¹³D lbaṭel zerɛen ara d-megren, țțafen lfeṛḥ-nsen mi xeddmen ɛinani lebɣi n tnefsit-nsen. Sčuṛen d lɛib akk-d lḥecma, yerna m' ara qqimen yid-wen ɣer lmakla, ur țsetḥin ara s lehduṛ-nsen d ukellex-nsen.

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

¹⁴Sṭamaɛen anagar yir tilawin iwakken ad znun yid-sent ; ur ɛeggun ara di ddnubat i xeddmen, țɣuṛṛun imdanen ur neǧhid ara di liman, ččuṛen d ṭṭmeɛ, ț-țarwa n deɛwessu.

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

¹⁵Sǧan abrid n lewqam, ɛeṛqen mi tebɛen abrid i gewwi Belɛam mmi-s n Biɛuṛ i gḥemmlen ad yerbeḥ idrimen s lexdeɛ.

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

¹⁶Lameɛna iḥeccem-it Sidi Ṛebbi, mi d-issenṭeq ɣuṛ-es taɣyult tagugamt s ṣṣut n wemdan ; s wakka i t-iḥbes, iwakken ur ițkemmil ara di yir ccɣel-is.

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

¹⁷Imdanen-agi am tliwa iqquṛen, am usigna y

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;

²¹Axiṛ-asen i yemdanen-agi lemmer ur ssinen ara abrid n lḥeqq, wala imi i t-ssnen uɣalen ṭṭaxṛen i lameṛ iqedsen i sen-d-ițțucegɛen s ɣuṛ Sidi Ṛebbi.

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

²²Yedṛa yid-sen am akken yella di lemtul : Ițțuɣal weqjun ɣer iriran-is ; qqaṛen daɣen : Ilef iwumi ssarden, yuɣal imiren kan ad ixnunes deg waluḍ.

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.

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.

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.”