Jude 3–11

^3aBeloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our ^bcommon salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you exhorting that you ^ccontend earnestly for ^dthe faith which was once for all ^ehanded down to ^fthe ¹saints.

⁴For certain persons have ^acrept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand ^1bmarked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn ^cthe grace of our God into ^dsensuality and ^edeny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

⁵Now I want to ^aremind you, though ^byou know all things, that ¹Jesus, ^chaving once saved a people out of the land of Egypt, ²subsequently destroyed those who did not believe.

⁶And ^aangels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has ^bkept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day,

⁷just as ^aSodom and Gomorrah and the ^bcities around them, having indulged in the same way as these in gross sexual immorality and having ^cgone after ¹strange flesh, are exhibited as an ^2dexample in undergoing the ^epunishment of eternal fire.

⁸Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming, ^adefile the flesh, and reject authority, and blaspheme ¹glorious ones.

⁹But ^aMichael ^bthe archangel, when he, disputing with the devil, was arguing about ^cthe body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a blasphemous judgment, but said, “^dThe Lord rebuke you!”

¹⁰But ^athese men blaspheme the things which they do not understand; and ^bthe things which they know by instinct, ^clike unreasoning animals, by these things they are ¹destroyed.

¹¹Woe to them! For they have gone ^athe way of Cain, and for pay they have poured themselves into ^bthe error of Balaam, and ^cperished in the rebellion of Korah.