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- 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:
- 1:2 Mercy to you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
- 1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write to you
- concerning the common salvation, it was needful for me to write
- to you, and exhort [you] that ye should earnestly contend for
- the faith, which was once delivered to the saints.
- 1:4 For certain men have 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.
- 1:5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew
- this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of
- Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
- 1:6 And the angels who kept not their first state, but left
- their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains
- under darkness to the judgment of the great day.
- 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in
- like manner, giving themselves over to impurity, and going
- after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering
- the vengeance of eternal fire.
- 1:8 Likewise also these [filthy] dreamers defile the flesh,
- despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
- 1:9 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.
- 1:10 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.
- 1:11 Woe to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and run
- greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in
- the gainsaying of Core.
- 1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast
- with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [they are]
- without water, carried about by winds; withered autumnal trees,
- without fruit, twice dead, plucked out by the roots;
- 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame;
- wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness
- for ever.
- 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these,
- saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his
- saints,
- 1:15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convict all that are
- ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have
- impiously committed, and of all their hard [speeches] which
- ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
- 1:16 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.
- 1:17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken
- before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
- 1:18 That they told you there would be mockers in the last time,
- who would walk after their own ungodly lusts.
- 1:19 These are they who separate themselves, sensual, having not
- the Spirit.
- 1:20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy
- faith, praying by the Holy Spirit,
- 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy
- of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
- 1:22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
- 1:23 And others save with fear, pulling [them] out of the fire;
- hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
- 1:24 Now to him that is able to keep you from falling, and to
- present [you] faultless before the presence of his glory with
- exceeding joy,
- 1:25 To God the only wise, our Savior, [be] glory and majesty,
- dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
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