For they said to you, “In the end time there will come scoffers, propelled by their own ungodly desires.”

But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith, by praying in the Holy Spirit,

maintain yourselves in the love of God, while anticipating the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that brings eternal life.

You also know that the angels who did not keep within their proper domain but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept in eternal chains in utter darkness, locked up for the judgment of the great Day.

wild sea waves, spewing out the foam of their shame; wayward stars for whom the utter depths of eternal darkness have been reserved.

These men are dangerous reefs at your love feasts, feasting without reverence, feeding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit – twice dead, uprooted;