Jude 8–16

⁸In the same way these people—relying on their dreams—defile their flesh, reject authority, and slander glorious ones.^{q 9}Yet when Michael^r the archangel^s was disputing with the devil^t in an argument about Moses’s^u body, he did not dare utter a slanderous condemnation against him but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” ¹⁰But these people blaspheme anything they do not understand. And what they do understand by instinct—like irrational animals—by these things they are destroyed. ¹¹Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain,^v have plunged into Balaam’s error^w for profit, and have perished in Korah’s rebellion.^x

THE APOSTATES’ DOOM

¹²These people are dangerous reefs^E at your love feasts^y as they eat with you without reverence. They are shepherds who only look after themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds;^z trees in late autumn—fruitless, twice dead and uprooted. ¹³They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameful deeds; wandering stars^aa for whom the blackness of darkness^ab is reserved forever.^ac

¹⁴It was about these that Enoch,^ad in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied: “Look! The Lord comes with tens of thousands of his holy ones^{ae 15}to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly^af concerning all the ungodly acts that they have done in an ungodly way, and concerning all the harsh things ungodly sinners have said against him.” ¹⁶These people are discontented grumblers, living according to their desires;^ag their mouths utter arrogant words, flattering^ah people for their own advantage.