Jude 1–7

Contend Earnestly for the Faith

^11aJude, a ^bslave of Jesus Christ, and brother of ²James,

To ^cthose who are the called, beloved in God the Father, and ^dkept for Jesus Christ:

^2aMay mercy and peace and love ^bbe multiplied to you.

^3aBeloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our ^bcommon salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you exhorting that you ^ccontend earnestly for ^dthe faith which was once for all ^ehanded down to ^fthe ¹saints.

⁴For certain persons have ^acrept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand ^1bmarked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn ^cthe grace of our God into ^dsensuality and ^edeny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

⁵Now I want to ^aremind you, though ^byou know all things, that ¹Jesus, ^chaving once saved a people out of the land of Egypt, ²subsequently destroyed those who did not believe.

⁶And ^aangels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has ^bkept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day,

⁷just as ^aSodom and Gomorrah and the ^bcities around them, having indulged in the same way as these in gross sexual immorality and having ^cgone after ¹strange flesh, are exhibited as an ^2dexample in undergoing the ^epunishment of eternal fire.