Jude 1
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Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are called, beloved
in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
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Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.
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Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write to you of our common salvation,
I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith
which was once for all delivered to the saints.
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For there are certain men crept in privily, [even] they who were of old written of
beforehand to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness,
and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
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Now I desire to put you in remembrance, though you know all things once for all, that
the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them
that believed not.
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And angels that kept not their own principality, but left their proper habitation,
he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness to the judgment of the great day.
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Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with
these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth
as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
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Yet in like manner these also in their dreamings defile the flesh, and set at nothing
dominion, and rail at dignities.
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But Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body
of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing judgment, but said, The Lord rebuke
you.
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But these rail at whatever things they know not: and what they understand naturally,
like the creatures without reason, in these things are they destroyed.
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Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam
for hire, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.
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These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you,
shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by
winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
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Wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the
blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
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And to these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold, the Lord
came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
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to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of
ungodliness which they have ungodly wrought, and of all the hard things which ungodly
sinners have spoken against him.
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These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks
great swelling [words]), showing respect of persons for the sake of advantage.
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But you, beloved, remember you the words which have been spoken before by the apostles
of our Lord Jesus Christ;
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That they said to you, In the last time there shall be mockers, walking after their
own ungodly lusts.
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These are they who make separations, sensual, having not the Spirit.
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But you, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy
Spirit,
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keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ
to eternal life.
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And on some have mercy, who are in doubt;
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and some save, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear; hating
even the garment spotted by the flesh.
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Now to him whom is able to guard you from stumbling, and to set you before the presence
of his glory without blemish in exceeding joy,
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to the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, [be] glory, majesty, dominion
and power, before all time, and now, and for evermore. Amen.