¹⁷ But you, friends, remember the words of the emissaries^[a] of our Lord Jesus the Anointed, the Liberating King: ¹⁸ “At the end of time, some will ridicule the faithful and follow their lusts to the grave.” ¹⁹ These are the men among you—those who divide friends, those concerned ultimately with this world, those without the Spirit.