10. Whatever these people don’t understand, they insult. Like animals, which are creatures of instinct, they use whatever they know to destroy themselves.
11. How horrible it will be for them! They have followed the path of Cain. They have rushed into Balaam’s error to make a profit. They have rebelled like Korah and destroyed themselves.
12. These people are a disgrace at the special meals you share with other believers. They eat with you and don’t feel ashamed. They are shepherds who care ⌊only⌋ for themselves. They are dry clouds blown around by the winds. They are withered, uprooted trees without any fruit. As a result, they have died twice.
13. Their shame is like the foam on the wild waves of the sea. They are wandering stars for whom gloomy darkness is kept forever.
14. Furthermore, Enoch, from the seventh generation after Adam, prophesied about them. He said, “The Lord has come with countless thousands of his holy angels.
15. He has come to judge all these people. He has come to convict all these ungodly sinners for all the ungodly things they have done and all the harsh things they have said about him.”
16. These people complain, find fault, follow their own desires, say arrogant things, and flatter people in order to take advantage of them.
17. Dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ told you to expect:
18. “In the last times people who ridicule ⌊God⌋ will appear. They will follow their own ungodly desires.”
19. These are the people who cause divisions. They are concerned about physical things, not spiritual things.
20. Dear friends, use your most holy faith to grow. Pray with the Holy Spirit’s help.
21. Remain in God’s love as you look for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to give you eternal life.
22. Show mercy to those who have doubts.
23. Save others by snatching them from the fire ⌊of hell⌋. Show mercy to others, even though you are afraid that you might be stained by their sinful lives.
24. God can guard you so that you don’t fall and so that you can be full of joy as you stand in his glorious presence without fault.
25. Before time began, now, and for eternity glory, majesty, power, and authority belong to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.