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BOOK 65

 BOOK OF JUDE

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.