¹²But these people blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like unreasoning animals, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like animals they too will perish.^p

¹³They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight.^q They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.^e^r ¹⁴With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce^s the unstable;^t they are experts in greed^u—an accursed brood!^v ¹⁵They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam^w son of Bezer,^f who loved the wages of wickedness. ¹⁶But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey—an animal without speech—who spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.^x

¹⁷These people are springs without water^y and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.^z ¹⁸For they mouth empty, boastful words^a and, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh, they entice people who are just escaping^b from those who live in error.

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Footnotes

eSome manuscripts in their love feasts
fGreek Bosor

Cross references

p Ps 49:12; Jude 10
qSee Ro 13:13; 1 Th 5:7
r 1 Co 11:20, 21; Jude 12
sver 18
t Jas 1:8; 2 Pe 3:16
uver 3
v Eph 2:3
w Nu 22:4–20; 31:16; Dt 23:4; Jude 11; Rev 2:14
x Nu 22:21–30
y Jude 12
z Jude 13
a Jude 16
bver 20; 2 Pe 1:4