Jude 1:12-19 - The Apostates' Doom

12 These people are stains on your love feasts. They feast with you without any sense of awe. They are shepherds who care only for themselves. They are waterless clouds blown about by the winds. They are autumn trees that are fruitless, totally dead, and uprooted. 13 They are wild waves of the sea, churning up the foam of their own shame. They are wandering stars for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever.

14 Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied about these people when he said, "Look! The Lord has come with countless thousands of his holy ones. 15 15He will judge all people and convict everyone of all the ungodly things that they have done in such an ungodly way, including all the harsh things that these ungodly sinners have said about him."

16 These people are complainers and faultfinders, following their own desires. They say arrogant things and flatter people in order to take advantage of them.

17 But you, dear friends, must remember the statements and predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah. 18 They kept telling you, "In the last times there will be mockers, following their own ungodly desires." 19 These are the people who cause divisions. They are worldly, devoid of the Spirit.


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