³⁰ Also ^(A)from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking ^[a]perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.

¹⁹ having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck, ²⁰ of whom are ^(A)Hymenaeus and ^(B)Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan that they may learn not to ^(C)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 they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.

^3 (A)For the time will come when they will not endure ^(B)sound doctrine, ^(C)but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; ⁴ and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and ^(D)be turned aside to fables.

²⁶ And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for a whole year they assembled with the church and taught a great many people. And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

The Fear of the Lord Leads to Life

⁶ But this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

⁴ For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord ^[a]God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Old and New Apostates

⁵ But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that ^(A)the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. ⁶ And the angels who did not keep their ^[b]proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; ⁷ as ^(B)Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the ^[c]vengeance of eternal fire.

^8 (C)Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and ^(D)speak evil of ^[d]dignitaries. ⁹ Yet Michael the archangel, in ^[e]contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, ^(E)“The Lord rebuke you!” ^10 (F)But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves. ¹¹ Woe to them! For they have gone in the way ^(G)of Cain, ^(H)have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished ^(I)in the rebellion of Korah.

Apostates Depraved and Doomed

¹² These are ^[f]spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried ^[g]about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; ^13 (J)raging waves of the sea, ^(K)foaming up their own shame; wandering stars ^(L)for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

¹⁴ Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, ¹⁵ to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the ^(M)harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”

Apostates Predicted

¹⁶ These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they ^(N)mouth great swelling words, ^(O)flattering people to gain advantage.