Jude 1
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1This letter comes from Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and James' brother. I am writing to those who are called and loved by God the Father, and who are kept safe by Jesus Christ: 2May God's mercy, peace, and love increase in your experience!
3My friends, I was already looking forward to writing to you about the salvation that we share. But now I need to write urgently to you and encourage you to vigorously defend the truth about God,#1:3. Literally: “faith,” or “belief.” given once and for all time#1:3. “Given once and for all time”: since God revealed the truth about himself at many different times in history, probably the idea here is the consummate revelation of God by himself in the Person of Jesus. to God's holy people. 4For some people have quietly crept in among you. They were written about and condemned a long time ago, for they are wicked people who pervert God's grace, turning it into a license to immorality, while also denying our Lord and master Jesus Christ.
5Even though you already know this, I want to remind you that though the Lord saved his people out of the land of Egypt, later he still destroyed those who disbelieved. 6Even those angels that were not content with their God-given positions but abandoned their rightful places—he has placed them in eternal chains of darkness until the great Day of Judgment. 7In just the same way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns nearby that pursued immorality and perverted sex are provided as an example of those that experience the punishment of eternal fire.#1:7. Eternal in the sense of consequence, not in duration—as is obvious from the context in that this “eternal” aspect ends with the judgment. The same applies to the “eternal fire” in verse 7 that is exemplified by Sodom and Gomorrah—the effects are eternal, but the towns are not burning now, nor “forever.”
8Likewise these dreamers#1:8. The reference is to the people mentioned in verse 4. pollute their bodies, disregard authority, and insult heavenly beings. 9Even the archangel Michael, when he was arguing with the devil over Moses' body, didn't dare to condemn him with a slanderous insult, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you.” 10But these people ridicule whatever they don't understand; and what they do understand they instinctively follow like unthinking animals—this is what destroys them. 11They're in terrible trouble! For they have followed Cain's way. Like Balaam and his delusion, they have abandoned themselves to the profit motive. Like Korah and his rebellion, they have destroyed themselves. 12These people spoil your fellowship meals, for they are selfish shepherds that don't have the slightest sense of shame—they only take care of themselves. They're clouds blown along by the wind that bring no rain. They're bare trees without fruit—twice dead, pulled out by the roots. 13They're violent ocean waves, foaming in their own disgrace. They're false stars, doomed forever to utter darkness.
14Enoch, seven generations on from Adam, spoke prophetically about these people: “Look! The Lord is coming, together with thousands and thousands of his holy ones 15to judge everyone, to reveal all the wicked things people have done, and all the terrible things hostile sinners have said against him.” 16Such people are grumblers, always complaining. They follow their own evil desires, speaking boastfully about themselves, and flattering others to get what they want.
17But you, my dear friends, please remember what you were told by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. 18They explained to you that in the last times mockers would come, following their own wicked desires.#1:18. See 2 Peter 3:3. 19They cause divisions; they are worldly people who don't have the Spirit.
20But you, my friends, are to build yourselves up through your trust in God. Pray in the Holy Spirit, 21keep yourselves safe in God's love, and wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ who brings eternal life. 22Show kindness to those who doubt. 23Save those you can by snatching them out of the fire. Show mercy—but with great care, hating even the “clothing” that is contaminated by sinful human nature.#1:23. In other words, while being merciful to the sinner, be very careful about the “sinful clothing” human beings have on them, so as to avoid becoming “infected” yourself.
24Now to him who can keep you from falling,
and who can bring you into his glorious presence without fault, and with great joy,
25to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord,
be glory, majesty, power, and authority, before all time, now, and forever.
Amen.
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Yehuḏah (Jude) 1
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1Yehuḏah, a servant of יהושע Messiah, and brother of Ya‛aqoḇ, to those who are called, set-apart by Elohim the Father, and preserved in יהושע Messiah:
2Compassion, and peace, and love be increased to you.
3Beloved ones, making all haste to write to you concerning our common deliverance, I felt the necessity to write to you urging you to earnestly contend for the belief which was once for all delivered to the set-apart ones.
4For certain men have slipped in, whose judgment was written about long ago, wicked ones#See Mat. 13; 2Thes. 2 perverting the favour of our Elohim for indecency, and denying the only Master יהוה and our Master יהושע Messiah.
5But I intend to remind you, though you once knew this, that יהוה, having saved a people out of the land of Mitsrayim, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
6And the messengers who did not keep their own principality, but left their own dwelling, He has kept in everlasting shackles under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
7Even as Seḏom and Amorah and the cities around them in a similar way to these, having given themselves over to whoring and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, undergoing judicial punishment of everlasting fire.
8In the same way, indeed, these dreamers defile the flesh, and reject authority, and speak evil of esteemed ones.
9But Miḵa’ĕl the chief messenger, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Mosheh, presumed not to bring against him a blasphemous accusation, but said, “יהוה rebuke you!”#Zech. 3:2
10But these blaspheme that which they do not know. And that which they know naturally, like unreasoning beasts, in these they corrupt themselves.
11Woe to them! Because they have gone in the way of Qayin, and gave themselves to the delusion of Bil‛am for a reward, and perished in the rebellion of Qoraḥ.#Compare Jude 1:7-11 with 2Pe. 2:6-15
12These are rocky reefs in your love feasts, feasting with you, feeding themselves without fear, waterless clouds borne about by the winds, late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,
13wild waves of the sea foaming up their own shame, straying stars for whom blackness of darkness is kept forever.
14And Ḥanoḵ, the seventh from Aḏam, also prophesied of these, saying, “See, יהוה comes with His myriads of set-apart ones,
15to execute judgment on all, to punish all who are wicked among them concerning all their wicked works which they have committed in a wicked way, and concerning all the harsh words which wicked sinners have spoken against Him.”
16These are grumblers, complainers, who walk according to their own lusts, and their mouth speaks proudly, admiring faces of others for the sake of gain.
17But you, beloved ones, remember the words spoken before by the emissaries of our Master יהושע Messiah,
18because they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own wicked lusts.
19These are the ones who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.
20But you, beloved ones, building yourselves up on your most set-apart belief, praying in the Set-apart Spirit,
21keep yourselves in the love of Elohim, looking for the compassion of our Master יהושע Messiah unto everlasting life.
22And show compassion toward some who are doubting,
23but others save with fear, snatching them out of the fire, hating, even the garment defiled by the flesh.#See also Rom. 8:5-10 and Gal. 5:19-21
24And to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you blameless before the presence of His esteem with exceeding joy,
25to the only wise Elohim, our Saviour, be esteem and greatness and might and authority, both now and forever. Amĕn.
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