¹⁶ These people are complainers and faultfinders, following their own desires. They say arrogant things and flatter people in order to take advantage of them.

Advice to the Readers

¹⁷ But you, dear friends, must remember the statements and predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah.^{[a] 18} They kept telling you, “In the last times there will be mockers, following their own ungodly desires.”^[b]