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1:1 /1 Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ and /2 a brother of
James: To those who are /3 in God the Father, /4 enfolded in
His love, and kept for Jesus Christ, and called.
1:2 May mercy, peace and love be abundantly granted to you.
1:3 Dear friends, since I am eager /5 to begin a letter to you
on the subject of /6 our common salvation, I find myself
constrained /7 to write and cheer you on to the vigorous
defense of the faith delivered once for all to God's people.
1:4 For /8 certain persons have crept in unnoticed--men spoken
of in ancient writings as pre-destined to this
condemnation--ungodly men, who pervert the grace of our God
into an excuse for immorality, and disown Jesus Christ, our
only Sovereign and Lord.
1:5 I desire to remind you--although the whole matter is
already familiar to you--that the Lord saved a people out of
the land of Egypt, but /9 afterwards destroyed those who /10
had no faith.
1:6 And angels--those who /11 did not keep the position
originally assigned to them, but deserted their own proper
abode--He
/1 reserves in everlasting bonds, in darkness, in preparation
for the judgement of the great day.
1:7 So also Sodom and Gomorrah--and the neighboring towns in
the same manner--having been guilty of gross fornication and
having gone astray in pursuit of unnatural vice, are now before
us as a specimen of the fire of the Ages in the punishment
which they are undergoing.
1:8 /2 Yet in just the same way /3 these dreamers also /4
pollute the body, while they set authority at naught and speak
evil of dignities.
1:9 But Michael the Archangel, when contending with the Devil
and arguing with him about the body of Moses, did not dare to
pronounce judgement on him in abusive terms, but simply said,
"The Lord rebuke you."
1:10 Yet these men are abusive in matters of which they know
nothing, and in things which, like the brutes, they understand
instinctively--in all these /5 they corrupt themselves.
1:11 Alas for them; for they have followed in the steps of
Cain; for the sake of gain they have rushed on headlong in the
evil ways of Balaam; and have perished in /6 rebellion like
that of /7 Korah!
1:12 These men--sunken rocks! --are those who share the
pleasure of your love-feasts, unrestrained by fear while caring
only for themselves; clouds without water, driven away by the
winds; trees that cast their fruit, barren, doubly dead,
uprooted;
1:13 wild waves of the sea, /8 foaming out their own shame;
wandering stars, for whom is reserved dense darkness of
age-long duration.
1:14 It was also about these that Enoch, who belonged to the
seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, "The Lord /1
has come, attended by myriads of His people, to execute
judgement upon all,
1:15 and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly deeds
which in their ungodliness they have committed, and of all the
hard words which they, ungodly sinners as they are, have spoken
against Him."
1:16 These men are murmurers, ever bemoaning their lot. Their
lives are guided by their evil passions, and their mouths are
full of /2 big, boastful words, /3 while they treat /4
individual men with admiring reverence for the sake of the
advantage they can gain.
1:17 But as for you, my dearly-loved friends, remember the
words that before now were spoken by the Apostles of our Lord
Jesus Christ--
1:18 how they declared to you, "In the last times there shall
be scoffers, /5 obeying only their own ungodly passions."
1:19 These are those who cause divisions. They are /6 men of
the world, /7 wholly unspiritual.
1:20 But you, my dearly-loved friends, building yourselves up
on the basis of your most holy faith and praying in the Holy
Spirit,
1:21 must keep yourselves safe in the love of God, waiting for
the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ which will result in the
Life of the Ages.
1:22 Some, when they argue with you, you must /8 endeavor to
convince;
1:23 others you must /8 try to save, as brands plucked /9 from
the flames; and on others look with pity mingled with fear, /10
while you hate every trace of their sin.
1:24 /1 But to Him who is able to keep you safe from stumbling,
and cause you to stand in the presence of His glory free from
blemish and full of exultant joy--
1:25 to the only God our Saviour--through Jesus Christ our Lord,
be ascribed glory, majesty, might, and authority, as it was
before all time, is now, and shall be to all the Ages! Amen.