\v 3 Beloved, while I was making every effort to write to you about our common salvation, I had to write to you to exhort you to struggle earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the believers.
\v 4 For certain men have slipped in secretly among you—men who were marked out for condemnation—ungodly men who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality, and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
\v 5 Now I wish to remind you—although you once fully knew it—that the Lord saved a people out of the land of Egypt, but afterwards he destroyed those who did not believe.
\v 6 And angels who did not keep to their own position of authority—but left their proper dwelling place—God has kept them in everlasting chains, in utter darkness, for the judgment of the great day.
\v 7 It is just like Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, which also indulged themselves in sexual immorality and they pursued unnatural desire. They were displayed as examples of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.
\v 9 But even Michael the archangel, when he was arguing with the devil and contending with him about the body of Moses, he did not dare to bring a slanderous judgment against him, but instead he said, "May the Lord rebuke you!"
\v 10 But these people bring slanders against whatever they do not understand. And what they do understand—what unreasoning animals know by instinct—these are what destroyed them.
\v 12 These are the ones who are reefs in your love feasts, feasting shamelessly, feeding only for themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by winds, autumn trees without fruit—twice dead, torn up by the roots—
\v 15 to execute judgment on everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh words which ungodly sinners have spoken against him."
\v 16 These are grumblers, complainers, who follow their evil desires, loud boasters, who, for their own advantage, flatter others.
\v 25 to the only God our savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and power—before all time, and now, and forevermore. Amen.