Jude 5–18

Old and New Apostates

⁵But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that ^gthe Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. ⁶And the angels who did not keep their ³proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; ⁷as ^hSodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the ⁴vengeance of eternal fire.

⁸ⁱLikewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and ^jspeak evil of ⁵dignitaries. ⁹Yet Michael the archangel, in ⁶contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, ^k“The Lord rebuke you!” ^10lBut these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves. ¹¹Woe to them! For they have gone in the way ^mof Cain, ⁿhave run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished ^oin the rebellion of Korah.

Apostates Depraved and Doomed

¹²These are ⁷spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried ⁸about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; ^13praging waves of the sea, ^qfoaming up their own shame; wandering stars ^rfor whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

¹⁴Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, ¹⁵to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the ^sharsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”

Apostates Predicted

¹⁶These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they ^tmouth great swelling words, ^uflattering people to gain advantage. ^17vBut you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: ¹⁸how they told you that ^wthere would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts.