Jude 5–18

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.

¹²These are the men who are ¹hidden reefs ^ain your love feasts when they feast with you ^bwithout fear, caring for themselves; ^cclouds without water, ^dcarried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, ²doubly dead, ^euprooted;

^13awild waves of the sea, casting up ^btheir own ¹shame like foam; wandering stars, ^cfor whom the ²black darkness has been reserved forever.

¹⁴But ^aEnoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, also prophesied about these men, saying, “^bBehold, the Lord came with ¹many thousands of His holy ones,

^15ato execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ^bungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”

¹⁶These are ^agrumblers, finding fault, ^bfollowing after their own lusts; and their mouth speaks ^carrogantly, ¹flattering people ^dfor the sake of their own benefit.

Keep Yourselves in the Love of God

¹⁷But you, ^abeloved, ^bmust remember the words that were spoken beforehand by ^cthe apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁸that they were saying to you, “^aIn the last time there will be mockers, ^bfollowing after their own ungodly lusts.”