⁴ For certain people have ^(A)crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand ^[a](B)marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn ^(C)the grace of our God into ^(D)indecent behavior and ^(E)deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

⁵ Now I want to ^(F)remind you, though ^(G)you know everything once and for all, that ^[b]the Lord, ^(H)after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, ^[c]subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. ⁶ And ^(I)angels who did not keep their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling place, these He has ^(J)kept in eternal restraints under darkness for the judgment of the great day, ⁷ just as ^(K)Sodom and Gomorrah and the ^(L)cities around them, since they in the same way as these angels indulged in sexual perversion and ^(M)went after ^[d]strange flesh, are exhibited as an ^[e](N)example in undergoing the ^(O)punishment of eternal fire.

⁸ Yet in the same way these people also, dreaming, ^(P)defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak abusively of angelic ^[f]majesties. ⁹ But ^(Q)Michael ^(R)the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about ^(S)the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him an abusive judgment, but said, “^(T)The Lord rebuke you!” ¹⁰ But ^(U)these people disparage all the things that they do not understand; and ^(V)all the things that they know by instinct, ^(W)like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed. ¹¹ Woe to them! For they have gone ^(X)the way of Cain, and for pay ^[g]they have given themselves up to ^(Y)the error of Balaam, and ^(Z)perished in the rebellion of Korah. ¹² These are the ones who are ^[h]hidden reefs ^(AA)in your love feasts when they feast with you ^(AB)without fear, like shepherds caring only for themselves; ^(AC)clouds without water, ^(AD)carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, ^[i]doubly dead, ^(AE)uprooted; ^13 (AF)wild waves of the sea, churning up ^(AG)their own shameful deeds like dirty foam; wandering stars, ^(AH)for whom the ^[j]gloom of darkness has been reserved forever.

¹⁴ It was also about these people that ^(AI)Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, “^(AJ)Behold, the Lord has come with ^[k]many thousands of His holy ones, ^15 (AK)to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ^(AL)ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.” ¹⁶ These are ^(AM)grumblers, finding fault, ^(AN)following after their own lusts; ^[l]they speak ^(AO)arrogantly, flattering people ^(AP)for the sake of gaining an advantage.