2 Peter 3
1 हे प्रियो, अब मैं तुम्हें यह दूसरी पत्री लिखता हूं, और दोनों में सुधि दिला कर तुम्हारे शुद्ध मन को उभारता हूं।
2 कि तुम उन बातों को, जो पवित्र भविश्यद्वक्ताओं ने पहिले से कही हैं और प्रभु, और उद्धारकर्ता की उस आज्ञा को स्मरण करो, जो तुम्हारे प्रेरितों के द्वारा दी गई थी।
3 और यह पहिले जान लो, कि अन्तिम दिनों में हंसी ठट्ठा करने वाले आएंगे, जो अपनी ही अभिलाषाओं के अनुसार चलेंगे।
4 और कहेंगे, उसके आने की प्रतिज्ञा कहां गई? क्योंकि जब से बाप-दादे सो गए हैं, सब कुछ वैसा ही है, जैसा सृष्टि के आरम्भ से था?
5 वे तो जान बूझ कर यह भूल गए, कि परमेश्वर के वचन के द्वारा से आकाश प्राचीन काल से वर्तमान है और पृथ्वी भी जल में से बनी और जल में स्थिर है।
6 इन्हीं के द्वारा उस युग का जगत जल में डूब कर नाश हो गया।
7 पर वर्तमान काल के आकाश और पृथ्वी उसी वचन के द्वारा इसलिये रखे हैं, कि जलाए जाएं; और वह भक्तिहीन मनुष्यों के न्याय और नाश होने के दिन तक ऐसे ही रखे रहेंगे॥
8 हे प्रियों, यह एक बात तुम से छिपी न रहे, कि प्रभु के यहां एक दिन हजार वर्ष के बराबर है, और हजार वर्ष एक दिन के बराबर हैं।
9 प्रभु अपनी प्रतिज्ञा के विषय में देर नहीं करता, जैसी देर कितने लोग समझते हैं; पर तुम्हारे विषय में धीरज धरता है, और नहीं चाहता, कि कोई नाश हो; वरन यह कि सब को मन फिराव का अवसर मिले।
10 परन्तु प्रभु का दिन चोर की नाईं आ जाएगा, उस दिन आकाश बड़ी हड़हड़ाहट के शब्द से जाता रहेगा, और तत्व बहुत ही तप्त होकर पिघल जाएंगे, और पृथ्वी और उस पर के काम जल जाऐंगे।
11 तो जब कि ये सब वस्तुएं, इस रीति से पिघलने वाली हैं, तो तुम्हें पवित्र चाल चलन और भक्ति में कैसे मनुष्य होना चाहिए।
12 और परमेश्वर के उस दिन की बाट किस रीति से जोहना चाहिए और उसके जल्द आने के लिये कैसा यत्न करना चाहिए; जिस के कारण आकाश आग से पिघल जाएंगे, और आकाश के गण बहुत ही तप्त होकर गल जाएंगे।
13 पर उस की प्रतिज्ञा के अनुसार हम एक नए आकाश और नई पृथ्वी की आस देखते हैं जिन में धामिर्कता वास करेगी॥
14 इसलिये, हे प्रियो, जब कि तुम इन बातों की आस देखते हो तो यत्न करो कि तुम शान्ति से उसके साम्हने निष्कलंक और निर्दोष ठहरो।
15 और हमारे प्रभु के धीरज को उद्धार समझो, जैसे हमारे प्रिय भाई पौलुस न भी उस ज्ञान के अनुसार जो उसे मिला, तुम्हें लिखा है।
16 वैसे ही उस ने अपनी सब पत्रियों में भी इन बातों की चर्चा की है जिन में कितनी बातें ऐसी है, जिनका समझना कठिन है, और अनपढ़ और चंचल लोग उन के अर्थों को भी पवित्र शास्त्र की और बातों की नाईं खींच तान कर अपने ही नाश का कारण बनाते हैं।
17 इसलिये हे प्रियो तुम लोग पहिले ही से इन बातों को जान कर चौकस रहो, ताकि अधमिर्यों के भ्रम में फंस कर अपनी स्थिरता को हाथ से कहीं खो न दो।
18 पर हमारे प्रभु, और उद्धारकर्ता यीशु मसीह के अनुग्रह और पहचान में बढ़ते जाओ। उसी की महिमा अब भी हो, और युगानुयुग होती रहे। आमीन॥
1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 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.
5 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:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 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.
10 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.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
16 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.
17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
1 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
3 And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
4 But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
5 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
6 And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.
7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
11 We are all one man’s sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.
12 And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
13 And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
14 And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:
15 Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.
17 And he put them all together into ward three days.
18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
19 If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:
20 But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
21 And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
23 And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
24 And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
25 Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man’s money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.
26 And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
27 And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack’s mouth.
28 And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us?
29 And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,
30 The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
31 And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:
32 We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
33 And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:
34 And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.
35 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man’s bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
37 And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.
38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.