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Beloved ,
making all haste to write to you ,
concerning the common salvation ,
I thought it necessary to write to you ,
exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith formerly delivered to the saints .
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For certain men have come in privily ,
who long ago were before written to this very condemnation ;
ungodly men ,
perverting the favor of our God to lasciviousness ,
and denying the only sovereign Lord ,
even our Lord Jesus Christ .
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I will therefore put you in remembrance ,
though you formerly knew this ,
that the Lord ,
having saved the people out of the land of Egypt ,
afterward destroyed them who did not believe .
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Also ,
the angels who kept not their first estate ,
but left their proper habitation ,
he has reserved in everlasting chains ,
under darkness ,
to the judgment of the great day .
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Likewise Sodom and Gomorrah ,
and the cities around them ,
which ,
after their example ,
had habitually committed uncleanness ,
and gone after other flesh ,
are set forth an example ,
suffering the punishment of an eternal fire .
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Truly ,
in like manner ,
also ,
shall these dreamers be punished-who ,
indeed ,
defile the flesh ,
despise authority ,
and blaspheme dignities .
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Whereas ,
Michael ,
the Arch Angel ,
when contending with the devil , (
he disputed about the body of Moses ,)
did not attempt to bring against him a reviling accusation ,
but said ,'
The Lord rebuke ':»
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but these ,
indeed ,
revile those things which they do not know ;
but what things they do know ,
naturally ,
as animals void of reason ,
by these things they destroy themselves .
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Alas for them !
for they have gone in the way of Cain ,
and have run evidently in the error of Balaam '
s hire ,
and have perished in the rebellion of Korah .
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These men are spots in love feasts ,
when they feast with you ,
feeding themselves without fear .
They are clouds without water ,
carried about of winds :
withered autumnal trees without fruit ;
twice dead ;
rooted out ;
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raging waves of the sea ,
foaming out their own shame ;
wandering stars ,
for whom the blackness of darkness for ever is reserved .
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Now ,
Enoch ,
the seventh from Adam ,
prophesied ,
indeed ,
concerning these men ;
saying ,» '
Behold ,
the Lord comes with his myriads of holy angels ,'
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to pass sentence on all ,
and to convict all the ungodly among them ,
of all their deeds of ungodliness ;
which they have impiously committed ;
and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him .»
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These are murmurers ,
and complainers ,
who walk according to their own lusts ;
and their mouths speak great swelling words .
They admire persons for the sake of gain .