Jude

The Warnings of History to the Ungodly

^11aJude, a ^bbond-servant 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 appealing 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 ^dlicentiousness and ^edeny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

⁵Now I desire to ^aremind you, though ^byou know all things once for all, that ¹the Lord, ^cafter saving 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, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and ^cwent after ¹strange flesh, are exhibited as an ^2dexample in undergoing the ^epunishment of eternal fire.

⁸Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming, ^adefile the flesh, and reject authority, and revile ¹angelic majesties.

⁹But ^aMichael ^bthe archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about ^cthe body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said, “^dThe Lord rebuke you!”

¹⁰But ^athese men revile the things which they do not understand; and ^bthe things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are ¹destroyed.

¹¹Woe to them! For they have gone ^athe way of Cain, and for pay ¹they have rushed headlong into ^bthe error of Balaam, and ^cperished in the rebellion of Korah.

¹²These are the men who are ¹hidden reefs ^ain your love feasts when they feast with you ^bwithout fear, caring for themselves; ^cclouds without water, ^dcarried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, ²doubly dead, ^euprooted;

^13awild waves of the sea, casting up ^btheir own ¹shame like foam; wandering stars, ^cfor whom the ²black darkness has been reserved forever.

¹⁴It was also about these men that ^aEnoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, “^bBehold, the Lord came with ¹many thousands of His holy ones,

^15ato execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ^bungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”

¹⁶These are ^agrumblers, finding fault, ^bfollowing after their own lusts; ¹they speak ^carrogantly, flattering people ^dfor the sake of gaining an advantage.

Keep Yourselves in the Love of God

¹⁷But you, ^abeloved, ^bought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by ^cthe apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁸that they were saying to you, “^aIn the last time there will be mockers, ^bfollowing after their own ungodly lusts.”

¹⁹These are the ones who cause divisions, ^1aworldly-minded, ²devoid of the Spirit.

²⁰But you, ^abeloved, ^bbuilding yourselves up on your most holy faith, ^cpraying in the Holy Spirit,

²¹keep yourselves in the love of God, ^awaiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

²²And have mercy on some, who are doubting;

²³save others, ^asnatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, ^bhating even the garment polluted by the flesh.

^24aNow to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to ^bmake you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with ^cgreat joy,

²⁵to the ^aonly ^bGod our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, ^cbe glory, majesty, dominion and authority, ^dbefore all time and now and ¹forever. Amen.