9. Not even the archangel Michael, when he argued with the devil about who would have the body of Moses, dared to judge the devil guilty. Instead, he said, “The Lord punish you.”
10. But these people speak against things they do not understand. And what they do know, by feeling, as dumb animals know things, are the very things that destroy them.
11. It will be terrible for them. They have followed the way of Cain, and for money they have given themselves to doing the wrong that Balaam did. They have fought against God as Korah did, and like Korah, they surely will be destroyed.
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.