Book of Jude
1 Jude,
a bond-servant of JESUS
CHRIST and brother of James,
To those who are the called, beloved in GOD THE FATHER,
and kept for JESUS
CHRIST:
2 May MERCY, PEACE, and LOVE be
multiplied to you.
3 Beloved,
while I was making every effort to write you about our common SALVATION, I felt the
necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for THE FAITH that was
once for all time handed down to the saints.
4 For
certain people have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked
out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn THE GRACE OF OUR GOD into indecent
behavior and deny OUR
ONLY MASTER AND LORD, JESUS CHRIST.
5 Now I
want to remind you, though you know everything once and for
all, that THE LORD, after
saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who
did not believe.
6 And angels
who did not keep their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling
place, these HE has kept in eternal restraints under
darkness for the judgment of the great day,
7 just
as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the
same way as these angels indulged in sexual perversion
and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in
undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
8 Yet in
the same way these people also, dreaming, defile the flesh, reject authority,
and speak abusively of angelic [i]majesties.
9 But Michael the
archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of
Moses, did not dare pronounce against him an abusive judgment, but said,
“THE LORD
rebuke you!”
10 But these
people disparage all the things that they do not understand; and all the
things that they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these
things they are destroyed.
11 Woe to
them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and for pay they have given
themselves up to the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion
of Korah.
12 These
are the ones who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast
with you without fear,
like shepherds caring only for
themselves;
clouds without water, carried along by winds;
autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;
13 wild
waves of the sea, churning up their own shameful deeds like dirty foam;
wandering stars, for whom the gloom of darkness has been
reserved forever.
14 It
was also about these people that Enoch, in
the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying,
‘Behold, THE
LORD has come with many thousands of HIS holy ones,
15 to execute judgment upon all, and to
convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which
they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things
which ungodly sinners have spoken against HIM.’
16 These
are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; [
they speak arrogantly, flattering people for the sake
of gaining an advantage.
Keep Yourselves in the Love of God
17 But
you, beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand
by the apostles of OUR
LORD JESUS CHRIST,
18 that
they were saying to you, ‘In the last time there will be
mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts.’
19 These
are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of THE
SPIRIT.
20 But
you, beloved, building yourselves up on YOUR MOST HOLY FAITH, praying in THE
HOLY SPIRIT,
21 keep
yourselves in the LOVE
of GOD, looking
forward to the MERCY
of OUR LORD JESUS
CHRIST to ETERNAL LIFE.
23 save
others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have MERCY with
fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh.
24 Now to HIM
WHO is ABLE TO PROTECT
YOU FROM STUMBLING, and ABLE TO MAKE YOU STAND IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS GLORY,
BLAMELESS WITH GREAT JOY,
25 All
glory to HIM WHO alone is GOD,
OUR SAVIOR, through JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD,
be GLORY, MAJESTY, DOMINION, AND AUTHORITY
BEFORE ALL TIME
AND NOW
AND FOREVER.
Amen."
