10. But these people revile what they do not understand and are destroyed by what they know by nature like irrational animals.
11. Woe to them! They followed the way of Cain, abandoned themselves to Balaam’s error for the sake of gain, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.
12. These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they carouse fearlessly and look after themselves. They are waterless clouds blown about by winds, fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead and uprooted.
13. They are like wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameless deeds, wandering stars for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved forever.
14. Enoch, of the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied also about them when he said, “Behold, the Lord has come with his countless holy ones
15. to execute judgment on all and to convict everyone for all the godless deeds that they committed and for all the harsh words godless sinners have uttered against him.”
16. These people are complainers, disgruntled ones who live by their desires; their mouths utter bombast as they fawn over people to gain advantage.
17. But you, beloved, remember the words spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,
18. for they told you, “In [the] last time there will be scoffers who will live according to their own godless desires.”
19. These are the ones who cause divisions; they live on the natural plane, devoid of the Spirit.
20. But you, beloved, build yourselves up in your most holy faith; pray in the holy Spirit.
21. Keep yourselves in the love of God and wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.
22. On those who waver, have mercy;
23. save others by snatching them out of the fire; on others have mercy with fear, abhorring even the outer garment stained by the flesh.
24. To the one who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished and exultant, in the presence of his glory,