Jude 1:1-15 ▼

1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, To those called, having been loved in God the Father and having been kept in Jesus Christ.

2 Mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you?.

3 Beloved, using all diligence to write to you? concerning our common salvation, I had necessity to write to you?, exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith having been delivered once for all to the saints.

4 For certain men came in stealthily, those having been designated long ago unto this judgment, ungodly ones changing the grace of our God into sensuality and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

5 Now I want to remind you?—you? knowing all things once for all—that Jesus, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, secondly destroyed those not having believed.

6 And the angels not having kept their domain, but having abandoned their own dwelling, He has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness unto the judgment of the great day,

7 as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, in like manner to these having indulged in sexual immorality and having gone after other flesh, are set forth as an example, undergoing the penalty of eternal fire.

8 Yet likewise also these dreaming ones indeed defile the flesh, and set aside authority, and blaspheme glorious ones.

9 But Michael the archangel, when disputing with the devil, reasoning about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring against him a judgment of blasphemy, but he said, “The Lord rebuke you!”

10 But these indeed blaspheme whatever things they have not seen; and whatever things they understand naturally, as the irrational animals, in these things they corrupt themselves.

11 Woe to them, because they went in the way of Cain, and they rushed for profit to the error of Balaam, and they perished in the rebellion of Korah.

12 These are the ones in your? love feasts, hidden reefs feasting with you fearlessly, shepherding themselves; clouds without waters, being carried about by winds; autumnal trees without fruit, twice having died, having been uprooted;

13 wild waves of the sea, foaming out of their shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of darkness has been kept unto the age.

14 And Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied as to these, saying: “Behold, the Lord came amidst myriads of His holy ones,

15 to do judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly concerning all their works of ungodliness that they did in an ungodly way, and concerning all the harsh things that ungodly sinners spoke against Him.”