
The General Epistle of Jude

   {1:1} Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them
that are called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
{1:2} Mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. {1:3} Beloved,
while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common
salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend
earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the
saints. {1:4} For there are certain men crept in privily, [even] they
who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly
men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our
only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. {1:5} Now I desire to put you in
remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, that the Lord,
having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed
them that believed not. {1:6} And angels that kept not their own
principality, but left their proper habitation, he hath kept in
everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
{1:7} Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in
like manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone
after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the
punishment of eternal fire. {1:8} Yet in like manner these also in
their dreamings defile the flesh, and set at nought dominion, and rail
at dignities. {1:9} But Michael the archangel, when contending with the
devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him
a railing judgment, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. {1:10} But these
rail at whatsoever things they know not: and what they understand
naturally, like the creatures without reason, in these things are they
destroyed. {1:11} Woe unto them! For they went in the way of Cain, and
ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the
gainsaying of Korah. {1:12} These are they who are hidden rocks in your
love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed
themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves
without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; {1:13} Wild waves
of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the
blackness of darkness hath been reserved forever. {1:14} And to these
also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold, the Lord
came with ten thousands of his holy ones, {1:15} to execute judgment
upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of
ungodliness which they have ungodly wrought, and of all the hard things
which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. {1:16} These are
murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth
speaketh great swelling [words]), showing respect of persons for the
sake of advantage. {1:17} But ye, beloved, remember ye the words which
have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
{1:18} That they said to you, In the last time there shall be mockers,
walking after their own ungodly lusts. {1:19} These are they who make
separations, sensual, having not the Spirit. {1:20} But ye, beloved,
building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy
Spirit, {1:21} keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the
mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. {1:22} And on some
have mercy, who are in doubt; {1:23} and some save, snatching them out
of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear; hating even the garment
spotted by the flesh. {1:24} Now unto him that is able to guard you
from stumbling, and to set you before the presence of his glory without
blemish in exceeding joy, {1:25} to the only God our Saviour, through
Jesus Christ our Lord, [be] glory, majesty, dominion and power, before
all time, and now, and for evermore. Amen.




