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