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Jude
1Jude, a servant of Jesus
Christ, and brother of James, to them that are called, beloved in God the
Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: 2Mercy unto you and peace
and love be multiplied.
3Beloved, while I was giving
all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained
to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which
was once for all delivered unto the saints. 4For there are
certain men crept in privately, even
they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly
men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our
only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. 5Now I desire to put you in
remembrance, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord,
having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them
that believed not. 6And angels that kept not their own
principality, but left their proper habitation, he has kept in everlasting
bonds under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. 7Even
as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner
with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange
flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal
fire.
8Yet
in like manner these also in their dreamings defile the flesh, and see
dominion as nothing, and rail at dignities. 9But Michael
the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body
of Moses, dared not bring against him a railing judgment, but said, The
Lord rebuke you. 10But these rail at whatsoever things they
know not: and what they understand naturally, like the creatures without
reason, in these things are they destroyed. 11Woe unto them!
For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam
for hire, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah. 12These are
they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you,
shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried
along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the
roots; 13Wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame;
wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved
forever. 14And to these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam,
prophesied, saying, Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy
ones, 15to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the
ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have ungodly worked,
and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. 16These
are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth
speaks great swelling words), showing respect of persons for the sake of advantage. 17But
you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the
apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; 18That they said to you, In
the last time there shall be mockers, walking after their own ungodly
lusts. 19These are they who make separations, sensual, not
having the Spirit. 20But you, beloved, building up yourselves
on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21keep
yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus
Christ unto eternal life. 22And on some who
are in doubt,
have mercy; 23and some save, snatching them out of the fire; and on
some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. 24Now
unto him that is able to guard you from stumbling, and to set you before
the presence of his glory without blemish in exceeding joy, 25to
the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and power, before all time, and now, and
for evermore. Amen.
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