¹² They are like ·dirty spots [blemishes; or dangerous hidden reefs/rocks] in your ·special Christian meals you share [fellowship meals; love feasts]. They eat with you and have no ·fear [qualms; or shame], ·caring only for themselves [or shepherds feeding themselves]. They are clouds without ·rain [^Lwater], which the wind blows around [2 Pet. 2:17]. They are autumn trees without fruit that are ·pulled out of the ground [uprooted]. So they are twice dead [^Cbecause they are both barren and uprooted; or perhaps a reference to both the physical and spiritual death of the false teachers]. ¹³ They are like wild waves of the sea, ·tossing up their own shameful actions like foam [^Lfoaming up their own shame]. They are like ·stars that wander in the sky [^Cperhaps a reference to planets, whose variable positions, unlike those of the stars, provide mariners no guidance]. A place in the ·blackest darkness [^Lgloom of darkness; v. 7] has been kept for them forever [2 Pet. 2:17].

¹⁴ Enoch, the seventh descendant from Adam [^Ccounting Adam first; Gen. 5:18–24], ·said [^Lprophesied] about these people: “·Look [^TBehold], the Lord is coming with many thousands of his ·holy angels [^Lholy ones] to