7. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh, were set forth for an example, having received the judgment of eternal fire.
8. In the same manner these deceived dreamers, defile their flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of higher powers.
9. Yet when Michael, the archangel, contended with the devil, disputing over the body of Moses, he dared not bring against him a curse of judgment, but said, The Lord reprehend thee.
10. But these speak evil of those things which they do not know; but what they know by nature as animals without reason, in those things they corrupt themselves.
11. Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
12. These are spots in your banquets of charity, feeding themselves without any fear whatsoever: clouds without water, carried to and fro of the winds; trees withered as in fall, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13. raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own abominations; erratic stars, to whom is reserved gross darkness eternally.