Jude 1
1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to those who are called, loved by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ.
2 May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
3 Beloved, I was making every effort to write to you about the salvation we share. But I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints.
4 For certain people have slipped in unnoticed, those who were long ago designated in writing for this condemnation. They are ungodly, turning the grace of our God into debauchery and denying our only Sovereign and Lord, Jesus Christ.
5 I want to remind you, though you already know everything once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people from the land of Egypt, later destroyed those who did not believe.
6 And the angels who did not keep their proper position, but abandoned their own dwelling, he has kept in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
7 In the same way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring cities gave themselves over to sexual immorality, just as these did, and went after different flesh. They stand as an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
8 Yet in the same way, these people too, in their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious beings.
9 But when Michael the archangel argued with the Devil, disputing over the body of Moses, he did not dare pronounce an insulting judgment against him, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you.”
10 These people, however, blaspheme whatever they do not know; and whatever they understand by instinct, like irrational animals, they are corrupted by those things.
11 Woe to them! For they have followed the way of Cain, rushed headlong into Balaam’s error for profit, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.
12 These people are hidden reefs at your love feasts, feasting with you without fear and shepherding themselves; they are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; late-autumn trees, fruitless, twice dead, uprooted.
13 They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of darkness is reserved forever.
14 Enoch, the seventh after Adam, also prophesied about these people, saying, “Look, the Lord came with tens of thousands of his holy ones
15 to execute judgment on everyone and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly deeds they have committed in ungodliness, and of all the harsh words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
16 These people are grumblers, complainers, following their own desires; their mouths speak arrogant things, and they flatter people for their own gain.
17 But you, beloved, remember the words spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
18 They used to tell you, “In the last time there will be mockers, following their own ungodly desires.”
19 These are the people who cause divisions, worldly people, who do not have the Spirit.
20 But you, beloved, build yourselves up in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.
22 And have compassion on some who doubt.
23 Save others by snatching them from the fire; have compassion on still others with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.
24 Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless and with great joy before his glory,
25 to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority, before all time, now, and forever. Amen.
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