^8 (A)Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and ^(B)speak evil of ^[a]dignitaries. ⁹ Yet Michael the archangel, in ^[b]contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, ^(C)“The Lord rebuke you!” ^10 (D)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 ^(E)of Cain, ^(F)have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished ^(G)in the rebellion of Korah.

Apostates Depraved and Doomed

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