³⁰ and ^(A)from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.

^19 (A)holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have ^(B)made shipwreck of their faith, ²⁰ among whom are ^(C)Hymenaeus and ^(D)Alexander, whom I ^(E)have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to ^(F)blaspheme.

^19 (A)They went out from us, but they were not of us; for ^(B)if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, ^(C)that it might become plain that they all are not of us.

^3 (A)For the time is coming when people will not endure ^(B)sound^[a] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, ⁴ and ^(C)will turn away from listening to the truth and ^(D)wander off into myths.

²⁶ and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called ^(A)Christians.

⁶ Yet this you have: you hate the works of ^(A)the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

⁴ For ^(A)certain people ^(B)have crept in unnoticed ^(C)who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert ^(D)the grace of our God into sensuality and ^(E)deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

⁵ Now I want ^(F)to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that ^(G)Jesus, who saved^[a] a people out of the land of Egypt, ^(H)afterward destroyed those who did not believe. ⁶ And ^(I)the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day— ⁷ just as ^(J)Sodom and Gomorrah and ^(K)the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and ^(L)pursued unnatural desire,^[b] serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

⁸ Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and ^(M)blaspheme the glorious ones. ⁹ But when ^(N)the archangel ^(O)Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing ^(P)about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, ^(Q)“The Lord rebuke you.” ^10 (R)But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively. ¹¹ Woe to them! For they walked in ^(S)the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain ^(T)to Balaam's error and ^(U)perished in Korah's rebellion. ¹² These are hidden reefs^{[c] (V)}at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, ^(W)shepherds feeding themselves; ^(X)waterless clouds, ^(Y)swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, ^(Z)uprooted; ^13 (AA)wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of ^(AB)their own shame; ^(AC)wandering stars, ^(AD)for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.

¹⁴ It was also about these that Enoch, ^(AE)the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, ^(AF)“Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, ^15 (AG)to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have ^(AH)committed in such an ungodly way, and of all ^(AI)the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” ¹⁶ These are grumblers, malcontents, ^(AJ)following their own sinful desires; ^(AK)they are loud-mouthed boasters, ^(AL)showing favoritism to gain advantage.