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Likewise also, these dreamers defile the flesh and despise government and speak evil of those who are in authority.

Yet Michael, the archangel, when he strove against the devil and disputed about the body of Moses, did not dare speak evil against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”

10 But these speak evil of those things which they do not know. And whatever things they know naturally (as beasts which are without reason), in those things they corrupt themselves.

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(A)Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and (B)speak evil of [a]dignitaries. Yet Michael the archangel, in [b]contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, (C)“The Lord rebuke you!” 10 (D)But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.

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Footnotes

  1. Jude 1:8 glorious ones, lit. glories
  2. Jude 1:9 arguing

Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and (A)blaspheme the glorious ones. But when (B)the archangel (C)Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing (D)about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, (E)“The Lord rebuke you.” 10 (F)But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively.

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