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10 Whatever these people do not understand, they slander. Like irrational animals, they are destroyed by the very things they know by instinct. 11 How terrible it will be for them! For they lived like Cain did[a], rushed headlong into Balaam’s error to make a profit, and destroyed themselves, as happened[b] in Korah’s rebellion. 12 These people are stains on your love feasts.[c] They feast with you without any sense of awe.[d] They are shepherds who care only for themselves. They are waterless clouds blown about by the winds. They are autumn trees that are fruitless, totally[e] dead, and uprooted.

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Footnotes

  1. Jude 1:11 Lit. they followed Cain’s path
  2. Jude 1:11 The Gk. lacks as happened
  3. Jude 1:12 Some early Christians had a meal along with the Lord’s Supper.
  4. Jude 1:12 Or without fear
  5. Jude 1:12 Lit. twice

10 Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct—as irrational animals do—will destroy them.(A)

11 Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain;(B) they have rushed for profit into Balaam’s error;(C) they have been destroyed in Korah’s rebellion.(D)

12 These people are blemishes at your love feasts,(E) eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves.(F) They are clouds without rain,(G) blown along by the wind;(H) autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted(I)—twice dead.

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