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Chapter: 001, of book Jude
V 001 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them
that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ,
and called:
V 002 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
V 003 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common
salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that
ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto
the saints.
V 004 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of
old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our
God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord
Jesus Christ.
V 005 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this,
how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt,
afterward destroyed them that believed not.
V 006 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their
own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness
unto the judgment of the great day.
V 007 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like
manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange
flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal
fire.
V 008 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise
dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
V 009 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he
disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing
accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
V 010 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what
they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt
themselves.
V 011 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran
greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the
gainsaying of Core.
V 012 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with
you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water,
carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit,
twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
V 013 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering
stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
V 014 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these,
saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
V 015 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly
among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed,
and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against
him.
V 016 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts;
and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in
admiration because of advantage.
V 017 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of
the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
V 018 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time,
who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
V 019 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the
Spirit.
V 020 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith,
praying in the Holy Ghost,
V 021 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our
Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
V 022 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
V 023 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating
even the garment spotted by the flesh.
V 024 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present
you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
V 025 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion
and power, both now and ever. Amen.
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