The Apostates’ Doom

¹² These people are dangerous reefs^[a] at your love feasts^(A) as they eat with you without reverence. They are shepherds who only look after themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds;^(B) trees in late autumn—fruitless, twice dead and uprooted. ¹³ They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameful deeds; wandering stars^(C) for whom the blackness of darkness^(D) is reserved forever.^(E)

¹⁴ It was about these that Enoch,^(F) in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied: “Look! The Lord comes with tens of thousands of his holy ones^{(G) 15} to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly^(H) concerning all the ungodly acts that they have done in an ungodly way, and concerning all the harsh things ungodly sinners have said against him.” ¹⁶ These people are discontented grumblers, living according to their desires;^(I) their mouths utter arrogant words, flattering^(J) people for their own advantage.

¹⁷ But you, dear friends, remember what was predicted by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ They told you, “In the end time^(K) there will be scoffers^(L) living according to their own ungodly desires.” ¹⁹ These people create divisions and are worldly,^(M) not having the Spirit.