/1-1- 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-
/1-2- MERCY UNTO YOU
AND PEACE
AND LOVE
BE MULTIPLIED.
/1-3- 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.
/1-4- 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.
/1-5- 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.
/1-6- 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.
/1-7- 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.
/1-8- LIKEWISE ALSO THESE FILTHY DREAMERS DEFILE THE FLESH
DESPISE DOMINION
AND SPEAK EVIL OF DIGNITIES.
/1-9- 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.
/1-10- 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.
/1-11- 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.
/1-12- 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
/1-13- RAGING WAVES OF THE SEA
FOAMING OUT THEIR OWN SHAME WANDERING STARS
TO WHOM IS RESERVED THE BLACKNESS OF DARKNESS FOR EVER.
/1-14- AND ENOCH ALSO
THE SEVENTH FROM ADAM
PROPHESIED OF THESE
SAYING
BEHOLD
THE LORD COMETH WITH TEN THOUSANDS OF HIS SAINTS
/1-15- 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.
/1-16- 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.
/1-17- BUT
BELOVED
REMEMBER YE THE WORDS WHICH WERE SPOKEN BEFORE OF THE APOSTLES OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST
/1-18- HOW THAT THEY TOLD YOU THERE SHOULD BE MOCKERS IN THE LAST TIME
WHO SHOULD WALK AFTER THEIR OWN UNGODLY LUSTS.
/1-19- THESE BE THEY WHO SEPARATE THEMSELVES
SENSUAL
HAVING NOT THE SPIRIT.
/1-20- BUT YE
BELOVED
BUILDING UP YOURSELVES ON YOUR MOST HOLY FAITH
PRAYING IN THE HOLY GHOST
/1-21- KEEP YOURSELVES IN THE LOVE OF GOD
LOOKING FOR THE MERCY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST UNTO ETERNAL LIFE.
/1-22- AND OF SOME HAVE COMPASSION
MAKING A DIFFERENCE-
/1-23- AND OTHERS SAVE WITH FEAR
PULLING THEM OUT OF THE FIRE HATING EVEN THE GARMENT SPOTTED BY THE FLESH.
/1-24- 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
/1-25- TO THE ONLY WISE GOD OUR SAVIOUR
BE GLORY AND MAJESTY
DOMINION AND POWER
BOTH NOW AND EVER. AMEN.
