Mercy to you, and peace, and love be multiplied.

But these, whatever things they know not, they speak railingly against; but what even, as the irrational animals, they understand by mere nature, in these things they corrupt themselves.

These are spots in your love-feasts, feasting together with you without fear, pasturing themselves; clouds without water, carried along by the winds; autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;

But ye, beloved, remember the words spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

that they said to you, that at the end of the time there should be mockers, walking after their own lusts of ungodlinesses.

but others save with fear, snatching them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

to the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, might, and authority, from before the whole age, and now, and to all the ages. Amen.