The General Epistle of Jude
1:1Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and
brother of James, to them that are called, beloved in God the Father, and
kept for Jesus Christ: 1:2Mercy unto you and peace and love be
multiplied. 1:3Beloved, while I was giving all
diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to
write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was
once for all delivered unto the saints. 1:4For there are certain
men crept in privily, even they who were of old written of
beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our
God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus
Christ. 1:5Now I desire to put you in remembrance,
though ye know all things once for all, that the Lord, having saved a
people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed
not. 1:6And angels that kept not their own
principality, but left their proper habitation, he hath kept in
everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. 1:7Even
as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner
with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange
flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal
fire. 1:8Yet in like manner these also in their
dreamings defile the flesh, and set at nought dominion, and rail at
dignities. 1:9But Michael the archangel, when
contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not
bring against him a railing judgment, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. 1:10But
these rail at whatsoever things they know not: and what they understand
naturally, like the creatures without reason, in these things are they
destroyed. 1:11Woe unto them! For they went in the
way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and
perished in the gainsaying of Korah. 1:12These are they who are hidden rocks in
your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear
feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn
leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 1:13Wild waves of the sea, foaming out
their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness hath
been reserved forever. 1:14And to these also Enoch, the seventh
from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of
his holy ones, 1:15to execute judgment upon all, and to
convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have
ungodly wrought, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have
spoken against him. 1:16These are murmurers, complainers,
walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaketh great swelling
words), showing respect of persons for the sake of advantage. 1:17But
ye, beloved, remember ye the words which have been spoken before by the
apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; 1:18That they said to you, In the last
time there shall be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts. 1:19These are they who make separations,
sensual, having not the Spirit. 1:20But ye, beloved, building up
yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 1:21keep yourselves in the love of God,
looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. 1:22And
on some have mercy, who are in doubt; 1:23and some save,
snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear; hating
even the garment spotted by the flesh. 1:24Now unto him that is
able to guard you from stumbling, and to set you before the presence of
his glory without blemish in exceeding joy, 1:25to the only God our
Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion
and power, before all time, and now, and for evermore. Amen.
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