¹⁶ These are murmurers, repiners; according to their desires walking, and their mouth doth speak great swellings, giving admiration to persons for the sake of profit;

¹⁷ and ye, beloved, remember ye the sayings spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ:

¹⁸ that they said to you, that in the last time there shall be scoffers, after their own desires of impieties going on,