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:
02 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be
multiplied.
03 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.
04 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.
05 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.
06 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.
07 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.
08 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the
flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of
dignities.
09 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;
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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.
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.
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