5 Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, ⁱwho saved¹ a people out of the land of Egypt, ^jafterward destroyed ^kthose who did not believe. 6 ^lAnd the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day— 7 ^mjust as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise ⁿindulged in sexual immorality and pursued ^ounnatural desire,² serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

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 reefs³ 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.”