¹² One of their prophets has said, The men of Crete are ever false, evil beasts, lovers of food, hating work.

²⁸ For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring.

¹¹ Men of Crete and Arabia, to all of us they are talking in our different languages, of the great works of God.

¹⁸ For such people are not servants of the Lord Christ, but of their stomachs; and by their smooth and well-said words the hearts of those who have no knowledge of evil are tricked.

² Through the false ways of men whose words are untrue, whose hearts are burned as with a heated iron;

¹² But these men, like beasts without reason, whose natural use is to be taken and put to death, crying out against things of which they have no knowledge, will undergo that same destruction which they are designing for others;

¹⁵ Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;

⁸ In the same way these dreamers make the flesh unclean, having no respect for authorities, and say evil of rulers.

⁹ Now when Michael, one of the chief angels, was fighting against the Evil One for the body of Moses, fearing to make use of violent words against him, he only said, May the Lord be your judge.

¹⁰ But these men say evil about such things as they have no knowledge of; and the things of which they have natural knowledge, like beasts without reason, are the cause of their destruction.

¹¹ A curse on them! They have gone in the way of Cain, running uncontrolled into the error of Balaam for reward, and have come to destruction by saying evil against the Lord, like Korah.

¹² These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,

¹³ Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever.