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1 ¶ Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of
James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus
Christ, and called:
2 Mercy unto you,
and peace, and love, be multiplied.
3 ¶ Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you
of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort
you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered
unto the saints.
4 For there are
certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this
condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness,
and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
5 I will
therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord,
having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that
believed not.
6 And the angels
which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath
reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great
day.
7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities
about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going
after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of
eternal fire.
8 ¶ Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh,
despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
9 Yet Michael the
archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses,
durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke
thee.
10 But these
speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally,
as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe unto them!
for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of
Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
12 These are
spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves
without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees
whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves
of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved
the blackness of darkness for ever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam,
prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his
saints,
15 ¶ To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all
that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly
committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken
against him.
16 These are
murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh
great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
17 But, beloved,
remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord
Jesus Christ;
18 How that they
told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their
own ungodly lusts.
19 These be they
who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
20 But ye,
beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy
Ghost,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking
for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22 And of some
have compassion, making a difference:
23 And others
save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted
by the flesh.
24 Now unto him
that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the
presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
25 To the only
wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and
ever. Amen.