Jude 1–11

Greeting to the Called

1 Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and abrother of James,

To those who are bcalled, 1sanctified by God the Father, and cpreserved in Jesus Christ:

2 Mercy, dpeace, and love be multiplied to you.

Contend for the Faith

3 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you econcerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting fyou to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. 4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord 2God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Old and New Apostates

5 But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that gthe Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And the angels who did not keep their 3proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; 7 as hSodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the 4vengeance of eternal fire.

8 iLikewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and jspeak evil of 5dignitaries. 9 Yet Michael the archangel, in 6contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, k“The Lord rebuke you!” 10 lBut these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves. 11 Woe to them! For they have gone in the way mof Cain, nhave run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished oin the rebellion of Korah.