The Apostates’ Doom

12 These are the ones who are like dangerous reefs[a] at your love feasts.(A) They feast with you, nurturing only themselves without fear. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds;(B) trees in late autumn—fruitless, twice dead, pulled out by the roots; 13 wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameful deeds; wandering stars(C) for whom the blackness of darkness(D) is reserved forever!(E)

14 And Enoch,(F) in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied about them:

Look! The Lord comes[b]
with thousands of His holy ones(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Jude 1:12 Or like spots
  2. Jude 1:14 Or came

12 These people are blemishes at your love feasts,(A) eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves.(B) They are clouds without rain,(C) blown along by the wind;(D) autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted(E)—twice dead. 13 They are wild waves of the sea,(F) foaming up their shame;(G) wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.(H)

14 Enoch,(I) the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: “See, the Lord is coming(J) with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones(K)

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