Jude 1:1-9

Jude,  a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James: To those who are the called,  loved  , by God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ.  May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.  Dear friends, although I was eager to write you about the salvation we share,  I found it necessary to write, appealing to you to contend for the faith  that was delivered  to the saints once for all. For some people, who were designated for this judgment long ago,  , have come in by stealth;  they are ungodly,  turning the grace of our God into sensuality and denying  Jesus Christ, our only Master and Lord. Now I want to remind you, although you came to know all these things once and for all, that Jesus  saved a people out of Egypt and later destroyed those who did not believe;  and the angels  who did not keep their own position but abandoned their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deep darkness for the judgment on the great day. Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah  and the surrounding towns committed sexual immorality and perversions,  and serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.  In the same way these people #— #relying on their dreams #— #defile their flesh, reject authority, and slander glorious ones.  Yet when Michael  the archangel  was disputing with the devil  in an argument about Moses’s  body, he did not dare utter a slanderous condemnation against him but said, “The Lord rebuke you! ”