Jude 1–7

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.