Indeed, as long as I am in this tabernacle, I consider it right to stir you up by way of a reminder,

And many will follow their debauched lifestyles. Because of these false teachers, the way of truth will be slandered.

suffering harm as the wages for their harmful ways. By considering it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight, they are stains and blemishes, indulging in their deceitful pleasures when they feast together with you.

By forsaking the right path they have gone astray, because they followed the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them.

Dear friends, this is already the second letter I have written you, in which I am trying to stir up your pure mind by way of reminder: