Jude:1

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* Jude , a servant of Jesus Christ , and brother of James , to the called , loved in God the Father and kept by Jesus Christ : * Mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you . * Beloved , while giving all diligence to write to you , I found it necessary to write to you concerning the common salvation , exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once delivered to the saints . * For there have stealthily crept in certain men who were of old appointed beforehand for this condemnation , ungodly men , turning the grace of our God into wantonness , and denying the only Sovereign , and our Lord Jesus Christ . * But I wish to remind you as once knowing it all , that the Lord , having saved the people out of the land of Egypt , afterward destroyed those who believed not ; * and the angels which kept not their principality , but left their own dwelling –place , he hath kept in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day ; * even as Sodom and Gomorrah , and the cities about them , in like manner with them giving themselves over to fornication , and going away after strange flesh , are set forth for an example , suffering the vengeance of everlasting fire . * Yet in like manner these dreamers defile the flesh , despise dominion , and rail at dignities . * Yet Michael the archangel , when contending with the Devil he disputed about the body of Moses , dared not bring against him a railing accusation , but said : The Lord rebuke thee . * But these rail at the things which they know not ; but what things they understand naturally , as brute beasts , in these they corrupt themselves . * Woe to them ! for they have gone in the way of Cain , and rushed on in the error of Balaam for reward , and perished in the gainsaying of Korah . * These are the rocks in your feasts of love , feasting together without fear , feeding only themselves ; clouds without water , carried away by winds ; trees in late autumn , without fruit , twice dead , plucked up by the roots ; * raging waves of the sea , foaming out their own shame ; wandering stars , for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever . * Yea , and against these Enoch , the seventh from Adam , prophesied , saying , "Behold , the Lord cometh in the midst of his holy myriads , * to execute judgment upon all , and to convict all the ungodly among them of all the deeds of their ungodliness which they committed ; and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners spoke against him ." * These are murmurers , complaining of their lot , walking according to their own lusts ; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words ; admiring men ’s persons , for the sake of profit . * But do ye , beloved , remember the words which were before spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ ; * that they told you that at the last time there would be scoffers , walking according to their own ungodly lusts . * These are they that separate themselves , sensual , not having the Spirit . * But do ye , beloved , building up yourselves on your most holy faith , praying in the Holy Spirit , * keep yourselves in the love of God , looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life . * And some rebuke when they contend ; and others save , snatching them out of the fire ; and on others have compassion * with fear , hating even the garment spotted by the flesh . * But to him that is able to keep them from falling , and to present them faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy , * to the only God our Saviour , through Jesus Christ our Lord , is glory , majesty , dominion and power , before all time , and now , and for ever . Amen .

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