Jude 1–7

Greeting to the Called

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

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

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

Contend for the Faith

³Beloved, 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. ⁴For 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

⁵But 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. ⁶And 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; ⁷as ^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.