11.Woe to them! Thfity have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed for the profit into Balaam's error, they have been destroyed in Korah's rebellion. 12.These men are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm- shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown alone by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted- twice dead. 13.They are wild waves of the sea, foarming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackeat darkness has been revealed forever. 14.Enoch, the seventh from Adom, prophesied about these men: "See, the Lord is coming with thousands of his holy ones 15.to judge everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly acts they have done in the ungodly way, and of all the harsh words ungodly sinners have spoken against him." 16.These men are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires ; they boast about themselves and faltter others for their own advantage. 17.But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretled. 18.They said to you, "In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires." 19.These are the men who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the spirit. 20.But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit. 21.Keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life . 22.Be merciful to those who doubt; 23.snatch others from the fire and save them; to others show mercy, mixed with fear- hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh. 24.To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before this glorious presence without fault and with gret joy- 25.to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.
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