Jude:1

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* Jude , a servant of Jesus Christ , and brother of James , to the [ones ] called in God [the ] Father , having been set apart , and having been kept by Jesus Christ : * Mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you . * Having made all haste to write to you about the common salvation , beloved , I had need to write to you to exhort [you ] to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints . * For certain men crept in secretly , those having been of old previously written into this condemnation , ungodly ones perverting the grace of our God for unbridled lust , and denying the only Master , God , even our Lord Jesus Christ . * But I intend to remind you , you once knowing these things , that the Lord having delivered a people out of the land of Egypt , in the second place destroyed the ones not believing . * And those angels not having kept their first place , but having deserted their dwelling-place , He has kept in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of a great Day ; * as Sodom and Gomorrah , and the cities around them , in like manner to these , committing fornication , and going away after other flesh , laid down an example before-times , undergoing vengeance of everlasting fire . * Likewise , indeed , also these dreaming ones even defile flesh , and despise rulership , and speak evil of glories . * But Michael , the archangel , when contending with the Devil , he argued about the body of Moses , he dared not bring a judgment of blasphemy , but said , Let the Lord rebuke you ! * But what things they do not know , they speak evil of . And what things they understand naturally , like the animals without reason , they are corrupted by these . * Woe to them ! For they went the way of Cain , and gave themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward , and perished in the gainsaying of Korah . * These are sunken rocks in your love feasts , feasting together with you ; feeding themselves without fear ; waterless clouds being carried about by winds ; fruitless autumn trees , having died twice , having been plucked up by the roots ; * wild waves of the sea foaming up their shames ; wandering stars for whom blackness of darkness has been kept forever . * And Enoch , the seventh from Adam , also prophesied to these , saying , Behold , the Lord came with myriads of His saints , * to do judgment against all , and to rebuke all the ungodly of them concerning all their ungodly works which they ungodly did , and concerning all the hard things ungodly sinners spoke against Him . * These are murmurers , complainers , leading lives according to their lusts . And their mouth speaks proud things , admiring faces for the sake of gain . * But you , beloved , remember the words spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ , * because they told you that at [the ] last time there will be mockers according to their lusts , leading ungodly lives . * These are those setting themselves apart , animal-like ones , not having the Spirit . * But you , beloved , building yourselves up in your most holy faith , praying in the Holy Spirit , * keep yourselves in the love of God , eagerly awaiting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to everlasting life . * But pity some , making distinction . * But save others with fear , snatching [them ] out of the fire ; hating even the garment having been stained from the flesh . * Now to Him being able to keep you without stumbling , and to set you before His glory without blemish , with unspeakable joy ; * to the only wise God , our Savior , [be ] glory and majesty and might and authority , even now and forever . Amen .

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