65:001:001 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:
65:001:002 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
65:001:003 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.
65:001:004 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.
65:001:005 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.
65:001:006 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.
65:001:007 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.
65:001:008 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh,
despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
65:001:009 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.
65:001:010 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.
65:001:011 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.
65:001:012 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;
65:001:013 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame;
wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for
ever.
65:001:014 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these,
saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
65:001:015 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.
65:001:016 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.
65:001:017 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before
of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
65:001:018 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last
time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
65:001:019 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not
the Spirit.
65:001:020 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy
faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
65:001:021 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of
our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
65:001:022 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
65:001:023 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire;
hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
65:001:024 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,
65:001:025 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty,
dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.