Jude:1:3-16
Seeker Overlay ON
*
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 .
![[pBiblx2]](/img/pbiblx2_logo3.png){kind=logo}