⁷ Like Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who in a similar way indulged in extreme sexual immorality and pursued homosexual perversion,^[a] they serve as an example of those who are going to suffer the punishment of eternal fire.

⁸ Yet, in the very same way, these dreamers are defiling the flesh, despising authority, and blaspheming glorious ones. ⁹ But when the archangel Michael was disputing with the Devil and arguing about the body of Moses, he did not dare to bring a blasphemous condemnation against him. Instead he said, “The Lord rebuke you!”