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Jude
The Epistle of Jude
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Jude.1
[1]
Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that
are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and
called:
[2] Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be
multiplied.
[3] Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write
unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto
you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith
which was once delivered unto the saints.
[4] For there are
certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to
this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into
lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus
Christ.
[5] I will therefore put you in remembrance, though
ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of
the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
[6]
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own
habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness
unto the judgment of the great day.
[7] Even as Sodom and
Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves
over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for
an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
[8]
Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise
dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
[9] Yet Michael the
archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body
of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said,
The Lord rebuke thee.
[10] But these speak evil of those
things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute
beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
[11] Woe
unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily
after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying
of Core.
[12] These are spots in your feasts of charity,
when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds
they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit
withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
[13]
Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering
stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
[14]
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying,
Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
[15]
To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly
among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly
committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have
spoken against him.
[16] These are murmurers, complainers,
walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great
swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of
advantage.
[17] But, beloved, remember ye the words which
were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
[18]
How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who
should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
[19] These be
they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
[20]
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith,
praying in the Holy Ghost,
[21] Keep yourselves in the love
of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal
life.
[22] And of some have compassion, making a
difference:
[23] And others save with fear, pulling them
out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
[24]
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present
you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding
joy,
[25] To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and
majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.