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- JUDE:
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- CHAPTER 1
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- 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:
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- 2. Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 8. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise
- dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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;
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- 13. Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame;
- wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for
- ever.
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- 14. And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these,
- saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 17. But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before
- of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
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- 18. How that they told you there should be mockers in the last
- time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
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- 19. These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not
- the Spirit.
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- 20. But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy
- faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
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- 21. Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of
- our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
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- 22. And of some have compassion, making a difference:
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- 23. And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire;
- hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
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- 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,
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- 25. To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty,
- dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
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