Jude:1:3-16

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* Beloved , using all diligence to write to you of our common salvation , I have been obliged to write to you exhorting [you ] to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints . * For certain men have got in unnoticed , they who of old were marked out beforehand to this sentence , ungodly [persons ], turning the grace of our God into dissoluteness , and denying our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ . * But I would put you in remembrance , you who once knew all things , that the Lord , having saved a people out of [the ] land of Egypt , in the second place destroyed those who had not believed . * And angels who had not kept their own original state , but had abandoned their own dwelling , he keeps in eternal chains under gloomy darkness , to [the ] judgment of [the ] great day ; * as Sodom and Gomorrha , and the cities around them , committing greedily fornication , in like manner with them , and going after other flesh , lie there as an example , undergoing the judgment of eternal fire . * Yet in like manner these dreamers also defile [the ] flesh , and despise lordship , and speak railingly against dignities . * But Michael the archangel , when disputing with the devil he reasoned about the body of Moses , did not dare to bring a railing judgment against [him ], but said , [The ] Lord rebuke thee . * But these , whatever things they know not , they speak railingly against ; but what even , as the irrational animals , they understand by mere nature , in these things they corrupt themselves . * Woe to them ! because they have gone in the way of Cain , and given themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward , and perished in the gainsaying of Core . * These are spots in your love-feasts , feasting together [with you ] without fear , pasturing themselves ; clouds without water , carried along by [the ] winds ; autumnal trees , without fruit , twice dead , rooted up ; * raging waves of the sea , foaming out their own shames ; wandering stars , to whom has been reserved the gloom of darkness for eternity . * And Enoch , [the ] seventh from Adam , prophesied also as to these , saying , Behold , [the ] Lord has come amidst his holy myriads , * to execute judgment against all ; and to convict all the ungodly of them of all their works of ungodliness , which they have wrought ungodlily , and of all the hard [things ] which ungodly sinners have spoken against him . * These are murmurers , complainers , walking after their lusts ; and their mouth speaks swelling words , admiring persons for the sake of profit .

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