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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day— |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.” |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Woe to them! For they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error and perished in Korah’s rebellion. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted; |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.” |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22And have mercy on those who doubt; |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. |
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