"The Lord rebuke you."
001:010 Yet these men are abusive in matters of which they know nothing,
and in things which, like the brutes, they understand instinctively--
in all these they corrupt themselves.
001:011 Alas for them; for they have followed in the steps of Cain;
for the sake of gain they have rushed on headlong in the evil ways
of Balaam; and have perished in rebellion like that of Korah!
001:012 These men--sunken rocks!--are those who share the pleasure
of your love-feasts, unrestrained by fear while caring only
for themselves; clouds without water, driven away by the winds;
trees that cast their fruit, barren, doubly dead, uprooted;
001:013 wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars,
for whom is reserved dense darkness of age-long duration.
001:014 It was also about these that Enoch, who belonged to the seventh
generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, "The Lord has come,
attended by myriads of His people, to execute judgement upon all,
001:015 and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly deeds
which in their ungodliness they have committed, and of all
the hard words which they, ungodly sinners as they are,
have spoken against Him."
001:016 These men are murmurers, ever bemoaning their lot.
Their lives are guided by their evil passions, and their mouths
are full of big, boastful words, while they treat individual
men with admiring reverence for the sake of the advantage
they can gain.
001:017 But as for you, my dearly-loved friends, remember the words that
before now were spoken by the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ--
001:018 how they declared to you, "In the last times there shall
be scoffers, obeying only their own ungodly passions."
001:019 These are those who cause divisions. They are men of