Jude 1
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- 1From Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James. To those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ:
- 2May mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance.
- 3Dear friends, I was eager to write to you about the salvation we share, but I felt it necessary to write and encourage you to earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints.
- 4For certain people have secretly crept in, who were long ago marked out for this condemnation, ungodly people, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 5I will therefore remind you, though you once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
- 6And the angels who did not keep their first estate, but left their own habitation, he has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
- 7In the same way, Sodom and Gomorrha and the surrounding cities indulged in fornication and pursued strange flesh. They are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
- 8In the same way, these filthy dreamers defile their bodies, despise authority, and speak evil of dignities.
- 9But even Michael the archangel, when he was arguing with the devil over the body of Moses, didn't dare to bring a railing accusation against him. Instead, he said, "The Lord rebuke you!"
- 10But these people speak evil of things they do not understand. Yet, in the things they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, they corrupt themselves.
- 11Woe to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.
- 12These are blemishes in your love feasts, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: they are clouds without water, carried by the winds; trees whose fruit withers, without fruit, twice dead, uprooted;
- 13raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
- 14And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, "Look, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his saints,"
- 15to carry out judgment on everyone, and to convict every ungodly person of all the ungodly things they have done and all the harsh words ungodly sinners have spoken against him."
- 16These are grumblers and complainers, following their own lusts; their mouths speak boastful words, flattering people to gain an advantage.
- 17But you, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ told you ahead of time.
- 18They told you that in the last time, there will be mockers who follow their own ungodly desires.
- 19These are the ones who cause divisions, sensual, not having the Spirit.
- 20But you, dear friends — keep building yourselves up in your most holy faith, and keep praying in the Holy Spirit.
- 21Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
- 22And show compassion to some, making a distinction:
- 23Save others with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment stained by the flesh.
- 24Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with great joy,
- 25to the only wise God our Savior, be glory, majesty, dominion, and power, both now and forever. Amen.