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1:1 Jude, bondman of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the
 called ones beloved in God [the] Father and preserved in Jesus
 Christ:
1:2 Mercy to you, and peace, and love be multiplied.
1:3 Beloved, using all diligence to write to you of our common
 salvation, I have been obliged to write to you exhorting [you]
 to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the
 saints.
1:4 For certain men have got in unnoticed, they who of old were
 marked out beforehand to this sentence, ungodly [persons],
 turning the grace of our God into dissoluteness, and denying
 our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ.
1:5 But I would put you in remembrance, you who once knew all
 things, that the Lord, having saved a people out of [the] land
 of Egypt, in the second place destroyed those who had not
 believed.
1:6 And angels who had not kept their own original state, but
 had abandoned their own dwelling, he keeps in eternal chains
 under gloomy darkness, to [the] judgment of [the] great day;
1:7 as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities around them,
 committing greedily fornication, in like manner with them, and
 going after other flesh, lie there as an example, undergoing
 the judgment of eternal fire.
1:8 Yet in like manner these dreamers also defile [the] flesh,
 and despise lordship, and speak railingly against dignities.
1:9 But Michael the archangel, when disputing with the devil he
 reasoned about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a
 railing judgment against [him], but said, [The] Lord rebuke
 thee.
1:10 But these, whatever things they know not, they speak
 railingly against; but what even, as the irrational animals,
 they understand by mere nature, in these things they corrupt
 themselves.
1:11 Woe to them! because they have gone in the way of Cain, and
 given themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and
 perished in the gainsaying of Core.
1:12 These are spots in your love-feasts, feasting together
 [with you] without fear, pasturing themselves; clouds without
 water, carried along by [the] winds; autumnal trees, without
 fruit, twice dead, rooted up;
1:13 raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames;
 wandering stars, to whom has been reserved the gloom of
 darkness for eternity.
1:14 And Enoch, [the] seventh from Adam, prophesied also as to
 these, saying, Behold, [the] Lord has come amidst his holy
 myriads,
1:15 to execute judgment against all; and to convict all the
 ungodly of them of all their works of ungodliness, which they
 have wrought ungodlily, and of all the hard [things] which
 ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
1:16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their
 lusts; and their mouth speaks swelling words, admiring persons
 for the sake of profit.
1:17 But *ye*, beloved, remember the words spoken before by the
 apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1:18 that they said to you, that at [the] end of the time there
 should be mockers, walking after their own lusts of
 ungodlinesses.
1:19 These are they who set [themselves] apart, natural [men],
 not having [the] Spirit.
1:20 But *ye*, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy
 faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,
1:21 keep yourselves in the love of God, awaiting the mercy of
 our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
1:22 And of some have compassion, making a difference,
1:23 but others save with fear, snatching [them] out of the
 fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
1:24 But to him that is able to keep you without stumbling, and
 to set [you] with exultation blameless before his glory,
1:25 to the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord,
 [be] glory, majesty, might, and authority, from before the
 whole age, and now, and to all the ages. Amen.