Jude 5-11

Christian Standard Bible

Apostates: Past and Present

⁵ Now I want to remind you, although you came to know all these things once and for all, that Jesus^[a] saved a people out of Egypt and later destroyed those who did not believe;^{(A) 6} and the angels^(B) who did not keep their own position but abandoned their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deep darkness for the judgment on the great day. ⁷ Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah^(C) and the surrounding towns committed sexual immorality and perversions,^[b] and serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.^(D)

⁸ In the same way these people—relying on their dreams—defile their flesh, reject authority, and slander glorious ones.^{(E) 9} Yet when Michael^(F) the archangel^(G) was disputing with the devil^(H) in an argument about Moses’s^(I) body, he did not dare utter a slanderous condemnation against him but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” ¹⁰ But these people blaspheme anything they do not understand. And what they do understand by instinct—like irrational animals—by these things they are destroyed. ¹¹ Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain,^(J) have plunged into Balaam’s error^(K) for profit, and have perished in Korah’s rebellion.^(L)