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Jude 1

Greeting to the Called

Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and ^abrother of James,
To those who are ^bcalled, ¹sanctified by God the Father, and ^cpreserved in Jesus Christ:

2 Mercy, ^apeace, and love be multiplied to you.

Contend for the Faith

3 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you ^aconcerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting ^byou to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. 4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord ¹God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Old and New Apostates

5 But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that ^athe Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And the angels who did not keep their ¹proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; 7 as ^aSodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the ¹vengeance of eternal fire.
8 ^aLikewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and ^bspeak evil of ¹dignitaries. 9 Yet Michael the archangel, in ¹contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, ^a“The Lord rebuke you!” 10 ^aBut these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves. 11 Woe to them! For they have gone in the way ^aof Cain, ^bhave run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished ^cin the rebellion of Korah.

Apostates Depraved and Doomed

12 These are ¹spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried ²about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; 13 ^araging waves of the sea, ^bfoaming up their own shame; wandering stars ^cfor whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
14 Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, 15 to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the ^aharsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”

Apostates Predicted

16 These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they ^amouth great swelling words, ^bflattering people to gain advantage. 17 ^aBut you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: 18 how they told you that ^athere would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. 19 These are ¹sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.

Maintain Your Life with God

20 But you, beloved, ^abuilding yourselves up on your most holy faith, ^bpraying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, ^alooking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22 And on some have compassion, ¹making a distinction; 23 but ^aothers save ¹with fear, ^bpulling them out of the ²fire, hating even ^cthe garment defiled by the flesh.

Glory to God

^aNow to Him who is able to keep ¹you from stumbling,

And ^bto present you faultless

Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,

To ¹God our Savior,

²Who alone is wise,

Be glory and majesty,

Dominion and ³power,

Both now and forever.

Amen.

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