11 Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain,(A) have plunged into Balaam’s error(B) for profit, and have perished in Korah’s rebellion.(C)

The Apostates’ Doom

12 These people are dangerous reefs[a] at your love feasts(D) as they eat with you without reverence. They are shepherds who only look after themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds;(E) trees in late autumn—fruitless, twice dead and uprooted. 13 They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameful deeds; wandering stars(F) for whom the blackness of darkness(G) is reserved forever.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. 12 Or are like blemishes

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