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13 Those false teachers are like water in the sea that the wind blows during a storm. The dirt that comes to the top of the water is like the disgusting things that those people do. They are like stars that have moved away from their proper places in the sky. God has prepared a completely dark place for them. God will keep them there for ever.

14 Long ago, Enoch also spoke about those false teachers.[a] Enoch belonged to the seventh family that was born, starting with Adam. He said, ‘Look, the Lord will come with many thousands of his own angels. 15 He will judge all people. He will punish everyone who lives in a way that does not please him. He will punish them because of all the wicked things that they have done. He will punish them because of all the bad words that they have spoken against him.’[b]

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  1. 1:14 Enoch was a man who lived many, many years ago. He lived in a good way that pleased God. See Genesis 5:3-18,24.
  2. 1:15 These words that Enoch wrote are not in the Bible. Enoch wrote them in a book called ‘The Book of Enoch’.

13 They are wild waves of the sea,(A) foaming up their shame;(B) wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.(C)

14 Enoch,(D) the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: “See, the Lord is coming(E) with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones(F) 15 to judge(G) everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”[a](H)

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  1. Jude 1:15 From the Jewish First Book of Enoch (approximately the first century b.c.)