¹⁶ These men are complainers who look long and hard to find the faults of other men. They are led by their own lustful desires like fools down the path of destruction. They are arrogant liars who want only to get ahead of others.

¹⁷ But you, friends, remember the words of the emissaries^[a] of our Lord Jesus the Anointed, the Liberating King: ¹⁸ “At the end of time, some will ridicule the faithful and follow their lusts to the grave.”