4 For certain people have ^ecrept in unnoticed who ^flong ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into ^gsensuality and ^hdeny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

8 Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, ^preject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones. 9 But when the ^qarchangel ^rMichael, contending with the devil, was disputing about ^sthe body of Moses, he ^tdid not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, ^u“The Lord rebuke you.” 10 ^vBut these people blaspheme all that ^wthey do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively. 11 Woe to them! For they walked in ^xthe way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to ^yBalaam’s ^zerror and perished in ^aKorah’s rebellion. 12 ^bThese are hidden reefs¹ at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, ^cshepherds feeding themselves; ^dwaterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted; 13 ^ewild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.

14 It was also about these that ^fEnoch, ^gthe seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ^hten thousands of his holy ones, 15 to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” 16 These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are ⁱloud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.