Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was necessary for me to write unto you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

To execute judgment upon all, and to convict all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;