| Chapter 1
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
