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JUDE ยท Chapter 1
1:1 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:
1:2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common
salvation, it was necessary for me to write unto you, and exhort you that
all of you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered
unto the saints.
1:4 For there are certain men crept in unexpectedly, 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.
1:5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though all of you once
knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of
Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their
own habitation, he has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto
the judgment of the great day.
1:7 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.
1:8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion,
and speak evil of dignities.
1:9 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 you.
1:10 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.
1:11 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.
1:12 These are spots in your feasts of love, when they feast
with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water,
carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withers, without fruit, twice
dead, plucked up by the roots;
1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering
stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying,
Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his saints,
1:15 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.
1:16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts;
and their mouth speaks great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration
because of advantage.
1:17 But, beloved, remember all of you the words which were
spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
1:18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time,
who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
1:19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the
Spirit.
1:20 But all of you, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy
faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,
1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the
mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
1:22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
1:23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating
even the garment spotted by the flesh.
1:24 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,
1:25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion
and power, both now and ever. Amen.
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