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1But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive opinions. They will even deny the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.[#1 Cor 6.20; 1 Tim 4.1; Jude 18]
2Even so, many will follow their debaucheries, and because of these teachers the way of truth will be maligned.[#2.2 Gk because of them]
3And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced against them long ago, has not been idle, and their destruction is not asleep.[#Deut 32.25; 2 Cor 2.17; 1 Tim 6.5]
4For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of deepest darkness to be kept until the judgment;[#Jn 8.44; Jude 6; Rev 20.1, 2; #2.4 Other ancient authorities read pits]
5and if he did not spare the ancient world, even though he saved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;[#Gen 7.1; Heb 11.7; 1 Pet 3.20]
6and if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to destruction and made them an example of what is coming to the ungodly;[#2.6 Other ancient authorities lack to destruction; #2.6 Other ancient authorities read an example to those who were to be ungodly]
7and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man greatly distressed by the debauchery of the lawless[#Gen 19.16; 2 Pet 3.17]
8(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by their lawless deeds that he saw and heard),
9then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial and to keep the unrighteous until the day of judgment, when they will be punished[#1 Cor 10.13; Jude 6]
10—especially those who indulge their flesh in depraved lust and who despise authority.[#Titus 1.7; 2 Pet 3.3; Jude 8]
Bold and willful, they are not afraid to slander the glorious ones,
11whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not bring against them a slanderous judgment.[#2.11 Other ancient authorities add from the or before the]
12These people, however, are like irrational animals, mere creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed. They slander what they do not understand, and as those creatures are destroyed, they also will be destroyed,[#2.12 Gk in their destruction]
13suffering the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.[#Rom 13.13; 1 Cor 11.20, 21; Jude 12; #2.13 Other ancient authorities read receiving; #2.13 Other ancient authorities read love feasts]
14They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children![#2.14 Gk adulteress ; or longing for an adulteress]
15They have left the straight road and have gone astray, following the road of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of doing wrong[#Num 22.5, 7; Jude 11; #2.15 Other ancient authorities read Beor]
16but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.
17These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm; for them the deepest darkness has been reserved.[#Jude 12, 13]
18For they speak bombastic nonsense, and with debased desires of the flesh they entice people who have just escaped from those who live in error.[#2.18 Or debauched; #2.18 Other ancient authorities read actually]
19They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, for people are slaves to whatever masters them.[#Jn 8.34; Rom 6.16]
20For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overpowered, the last state has become worse for them than the first.[#Mt 12.45; Lk 11.26; 2 Pet 1.2; #2.20 Other ancient authorities read our]
21For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment that was handed on to them.[#Heb 6.4ff; 2 Pet 3.2; Jude 3]
22It has happened to them according to the true proverb,[#Prov 26.11]
“The dog turns back to its own vomit,”
and,
“The sow is washed only to wallow in the mud.”