But these people deride anything they do not understand, and the things they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, they use for their own destruction.

Alas for them, for they follow Cain's path, they plunge into Balaam's error for gain, and they perish in rebelliousness like Korah's.

They are stains on your religious meals, where they carouse together, boldly attending to no one but themselves; rainless clouds driven before the wind; leafless trees without fruit, doubly dead, and uprooted;

to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the godless of all the godless deeds they have done, and of all the harsh things that godless sinners have said against him."

These men are grumblers, dissatisfied with life. They go where their passions lead, their talk is arrogant and they cultivate people in the hope of gain.

for they said to you, "In the last times there will be mockers who will go where their own godless passions lead."

These are the men who create division; they are animal and devoid of the Spirit.