⁸Despite that, in the same way also these men, because of their^* dreams, defile the flesh and reject authority and blaspheme majestic beings. ⁹But Michael the archangel, when he argued with the devil, disputing concerning the body of Moses, did not dare to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” ¹⁰But these persons blaspheme all that they do not understand, and all that they understand by instinct like the irrational animals, by these things they are being destroyed. ¹¹Woe to them! For they have traveled in the way of Cain, and have given themselves up to the error of Balaam for gain, and have perished^g in the rebellion of Korah. ¹²These are the ones feasting together without reverence, hidden reefs at your love feasts, caring for themselves, waterless clouds carried away by winds, late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted, ¹³wild waves of the sea foaming up their own shameful deeds, wandering stars, for whom the deep gloom of darkness has been reserved for eternity.

¹⁴And Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about^h these people, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with tens of thousands of his holy ones ¹⁵to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodlyⁱ concerning all their ungodly deeds that they have committed in an ungodly way, and concerning all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him. ¹⁶These people are grumblers, discontented, proceeding according to their^j desires, and their mouths speaking pompous words, showing partiality to gain an advantage^k.

Read in Logos

Footnotes

*Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“dreams”) which is understood as causal
gOr possibly “will perish”
hOr “against”
iSome manuscripts have “to convict every soul”
jSome manuscripts have “their own”
kLiterally “respecting faces for the sake of advantage”