12. They are like dirty spots in your special Christian meals you share. They eat with you and have no fear, caring only for themselves. They are clouds without rain, which the wind blows around. They are autumn trees without fruit that are pulled out of the ground. So they are twice dead.
13. They are like wild waves of the sea, tossing up their own shameful actions like foam. They are like stars that wander in the sky. A place in the blackest darkness has been kept for them forever.
14. Enoch, the seventh descendant from Adam, said about these people: “Look, the Lord is coming with many thousands of his holy angels to
15. judge every person. He is coming to punish all who are against God for all the evil they have done against him. And he will punish the sinners who are against God for all the evil they have said against him.”
16. These people complain and blame others, doing the evil things they want to do. They brag about themselves, and they flatter others to get what they want.
17. Dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ said before.
18. They said to you, “In the last times there will be people who laugh about God, following their own evil desires which are against God.”
19. These are the people who divide you, people whose thoughts are only of this world, who do not have the Spirit.
20. But dear friends, use your most holy faith to build yourselves up, praying in the Holy Spirit.
21. Keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the Lord Jesus Christ with his mercy to give you life forever.
22. Show mercy to some people who have doubts.
23. Take others out of the fire, and save them. Show mercy mixed with fear to others, hating even their clothes which are dirty from sin.
24. God is strong and can help you not to fall. He can bring you before his glory without any wrong in you and can give you great joy.