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1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to those who are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: 2 mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you. 3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, it was necessary for me to write to you and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints. 4 For there are certain men who have crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation— ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lewdness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. 5 I will therefore remind you, though you once knew this: that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And the angels who did not keep their first estate but left their own dwelling place, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day, 7 even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. 8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise authority, and speak evil of dignitaries. 9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, did not dare bring against him a railing accusation but said, "The Lord rebuke you." 10 But these speak evil of those things that they do not know. But what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. 11 Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, and run greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the disobedience of Korah. 12 These are blemishes in your feasts of love when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear. They are clouds without water, carried about by winds; trees whose fruit withers, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 13 raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. 14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, "Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints 15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds that they have committed in an ungodly manner, and of all their harsh speeches that ungodly sinners have spoken against Him." 16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts. And their mouths speak great swelling words, holding men in admiration to gain advantage. 17 But, beloved, remember the words that were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, 18 how they told you there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. 19 These are those who separate themselves— sensual, not having the Spirit. 20 But you, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. 22 And on some have compassion, making a difference, 23 and others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment stained by the flesh. 24 Now to Him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, 25 to the only wise God, our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.