65:001:005 I will therefore put you in remembrance,
though ye once knew
this,
how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the
land
of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
65:001:006 And the angels which kept not their first
estate, but left
their
own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains
under
darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
65:001:007 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities
about them in like
manner,
giving themselves over to fornication, and going after
strange
flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the
vengeance
of eternal fire.
65:001:008 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile
the flesh, despise
dominion,
and speak evil of dignities.
65:001:009 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending
with the devil he
disputed
about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him
a
railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
65:001:010 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.
65:001:011 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the
way of Cain, and ran
greedily
after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished
in
the
gainsaying of Core.
65:001:012 These are spots in your feasts of charity,
when they feast
with
you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they
are
without
water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit
withereth,
without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
65:001:013 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their
own shame;
wandering
stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness
for
ever.
65:001:014 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam,
prophesied of these,
saying,
Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his
saints,
65:001:015 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince
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.
65:001:016 These are murmurers, complainers, walking
after their own
lusts;
and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having
men’s
persons in admiration because of advantage.
65:001:017 But, beloved, remember ye the words which
were spoken before
of
the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
65:001:018 How that they told you there should be
mockers in the last
time,
who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
65:001:019 These be they who separate themselves,
sensual, having not the
Spirit.