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Jude 1

The Warnings of History to the Ungodly

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 1 aJude, a  bbond-servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of  2James,

To  cthose who are the called, beloved in God the Father, and  dkept for Jesus Christ:

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 aMay mercy and peace and love  bbe multiplied to you.

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 aBeloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our  bcommon salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you  ccontend earnestly for  dthe faith which was once for all  ehanded down to  fthe  1saints.

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For certain persons have  acrept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand  1 bmarked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn  cthe grace of our God into  dlicentiousness and  edeny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

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Now I desire to  aremind you, though  byou know all things once for all, that  1the Lord,  cafter saving a people out of the land of Egypt,  2subsequently destroyed those who did not believe.

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And  aangels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has  bkept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day,

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just as  aSodom and Gomorrah and the  bcities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and  cwent after  1strange flesh, are exhibited as an  2 dexample in undergoing the  epunishment of eternal fire.

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Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming,  adefile the flesh, and reject authority, and revile  1angelic majesties.

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But  aMichael  bthe archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about  cthe body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said, " dThe Lord rebuke you!"

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But  athese men revile the things which they do not understand; and  bthe things which they know by instinct,  alike unreasoning animals, by these things they are  1destroyed.

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Woe to them! For they have gone  athe way of Cain, and for pay  1they have rushed headlong into  bthe error of Balaam, and  cperished in the rebellion of Korah.

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These are the men who are  1hidden reefs  ain your love feasts when they feast with you  bwithout fear, caring for themselves;  cclouds without water,  dcarried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit,  2doubly dead,  euprooted;

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 awild waves of the sea, casting up  btheir own  1shame like foam; wandering stars,  cfor whom the  2black darkness has been reserved forever.

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It was also about these men that  aEnoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, " bBehold, the Lord came with  1many thousands of His holy ones,

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 ato execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which  bungodly sinners have spoken against Him."

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These are  agrumblers, finding fault,  bfollowing after their own lusts;  1they speak  carrogantly, flattering people  dfor the sake of gaining an advantage.

Keep Yourselves in the Love of God

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But you,  abeloved,  bought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by  cthe apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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that they were saying to you, " aIn the last time there will be mockers,  bfollowing after their own ungodly lusts."

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These are the ones who cause divisions,  1 aworldly-minded,  2devoid of the Spirit.

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But you,  abeloved,  bbuilding yourselves up on your most holy  afaith,  cpraying in the Holy Spirit,

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keep yourselves in the love of God,  awaiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

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And have mercy on some, who are doubting;

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save others,  asnatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear,  bhating even the garment polluted by the flesh.

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 aNow to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to  bmake you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with  cgreat joy,

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to the  aonly  bGod our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord,  cbe glory, majesty, dominion and authority,  dbefore all time and now and  1forever. Amen.



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