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Also, remember what happened to the cities called Sodom and Gomorrah, and the other cities that were near them.[a] Like those bad angels, the people who lived in those places were also doing evil things. They were having sex with people who were not their husbands or their wives. They liked to have sex in other ways that are not right. God destroyed their cities. He has punished them with fire that never stops burning. That is an example of what will happen to wicked people like them.

These false teachers who have come among you do the same kind of bad things. Their dreams deceive them so that they use their bodies to do disgusting things. They refuse to obey God's authority. They insult God's powerful angels. Even the leader of God's angels, Michael, did not speak bad words like that against the Devil. Long ago, Michael argued with the Devil about who should have Moses' dead body.[b] But even when the Devil said bad words against God, Michael himself did not speak against the Devil. He did not think that he should do that. Instead, Michael said, ‘The Lord himself will show that you are wrong.’

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Footnotes

  1. 1:7 Jude uses Sodom and Gomorrah as examples of places where people did bad things. See Genesis 18:20; 19:1-29.
  2. 1:9 Deuteronomy 34:5-6 tells us about when Moses died.