⁸ Yet, in the very same way, these dreamers are defiling the flesh, despising authority, and blaspheming glorious ones. ⁹ But when the archangel Michael was disputing with the Devil and arguing about the body of Moses, he did not dare to bring a blasphemous condemnation against him. Instead he said, “The Lord rebuke you!”

¹⁰ But these people do not understand what they are blaspheming. They are being destroyed by the very things that they know by instinct (like unreasoning animals). ¹¹ Woe to them! They have gone the way of Cain. They have abandoned themselves for hire to the error of Balaam. They perished in Korah’s rebellion.

¹² These people are filthy stains on^[a] your love feasts when they eat with you without fear, shepherding themselves. They are clouds without rain, being driven along by the winds. They are autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots. ¹³ They are wild waves of the sea piling up the foam of their own shame. They are wandering stars for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved for eternity.