Jude 1
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Greeting
1Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ and brother of James.
To those who are called, loved by God the Father and kept safe by Jesus Christ.
2May you have more and more mercy, peace, and love.
Certain judgment of the false teachers
3Dear friends, I wanted very much to write to you concerning the salvation we share. Instead, I must write to urge you to fight for the faith delivered once and for all to God’s holy people. 4Godless people have slipped in among you. They turn the grace of our God into unrestrained immorality and deny our only master and Lord, Jesus Christ. Judgment was passed against them a long time ago.
5I want to remind you of something you already know very well. The Lord, who once saved a people out of Egypt, later destroyed those who didn’t maintain their faith. 6I remind you too of the angels who didn’t keep their position of authority but deserted their own home. The Lord has kept them in eternal chains in the underworld until the judgment of the great day. 7In the same way, Sodom and Gomorrah and neighboring towns practiced immoral sexual relations and pursued other sexual urges. By undergoing the punishment of eternal fire, they serve as a warning.
8Yet, even knowing this, these dreamers in the same way pollute themselves, reject authority, and slander the angels. 9The archangel Michael, when he argued with the devil about Moses’ body, did not dare charge him with slander. Instead, he said, “The Lord rebuke you!” 10But these people slander whatever they don’t understand. They are destroyed by what they know instinctively, as though they were irrational animals.
Prophecies about the false teachers
11They are damned, for they follow in the footsteps of Cain. For profit they give themselves over to Balaam’s error. They are destroyed in the uprising of Korah. 12These people are like jagged rocks just below the surface of the water waiting to snag you when they join your love feasts. They feast with you without reverence. They care only for themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by the winds; fruitless autumn trees, twice dead, uprooted; 13wild waves of the sea foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom the darkness of the underworld is reserved forever.
14Enoch, who lived seven generations after Adam, prophesied about these people when he said, “See, the Lord comes with his countless holy ones, 15to execute judgment on everyone and to convict everyone about every ungodly deed they have committed in their ungodliness as well as all the harsh things that sinful ungodly people have said against him.” 16These are faultfinding grumblers, living according to their own desires. They speak arrogant words and they show partiality to people when they want a favor in return.
17But you, dear friends, remember the words spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. 18They said to you, “In the end time scoffers will come living according to their own ungodly desires.” 19These people create divisions. Since they don’t have the Spirit, they are worldly.
A strategy for the faithful
20But you, dear friends: build each other up on the foundation of your most holy faith, pray in the Holy Spirit, 21keep each other in the love of God, wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will give you eternal life. 22Have mercy on those who doubt. 23Save some by snatching them from the fire. Fearing God, have mercy on some, hating even the clothing contaminated by their sinful urges.
Blessing
24To the one who is able to protect you from falling,
and to present you blameless and rejoicing before his glorious presence,
25to the only God our savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord,
belong glory, majesty, power, and authority,
before all time, now and forever. Amen.
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Jude 1
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Greeting to the Called
1Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and #Acts 1:13brother of James,
To those who are #Rom. 1:7called, sanctified by God the Father, and #John 17:11, 12preserved in Jesus Christ:
2Mercy, #1 Pet. 1:2; 2 Pet. 1:2peace, and love be multiplied to you.
Contend for the Faith
3Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you #Titus 1:4concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting #Phil. 1:27you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. 4For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Old and New Apostates
5But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that #Ex. 12:51; 1 Cor. 10:5–10; Heb. 3:16the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. 6And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; 7as #Gen. 19:24; 2 Pet. 2:6Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8#2 Pet. 2:10Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and #Ex. 22:28speak evil of dignitaries. 9Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, #Zech. 3:2“The Lord rebuke you!” 10#2 Pet. 2:12But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves. 11Woe to them! For they have gone in the way #Gen. 4:3–8; Heb. 11:4; 1 John 3:12of Cain, #Num. 31:16; 2 Pet. 2:15; Rev. 2:14have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished #Num. 16:1–3, 31–35in the rebellion of Korah.
Apostates Depraved and Doomed
12These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; 13#Is. 57:20raging waves of the sea, #(Phil. 3:19)foaming up their own shame; wandering stars #2 Pet. 2:17; Jude 6for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
14Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, 15to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the #1 Sam. 2:3harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”
Apostates Predicted
16These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they #2 Pet. 2:18mouth great swelling words, #Prov. 28:21flattering people to gain advantage. 17#2 Pet. 3:2But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: 18how they told you that #Acts 20:29; (1 Tim. 4:1); 2 Tim. 3:1; 4:3; 2 Pet. 3:3there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. 19These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.
Maintain Your Life with God
20But you, beloved, #Col. 2:7; 1 Thess. 5:11building yourselves up on your most holy faith, #(Rom. 8:26)praying in the Holy Spirit, 21keep yourselves in the love of God, #Titus 2:13; Heb. 9:28; 2 Pet. 3:12looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22And on some have compassion, making a distinction; 23but #Rom. 11:14others save with fear, #Amos 4:11; Zech. 3:2; 1 Cor. 3:15pulling them out of the fire, hating even #(Zech. 3:4, 5); Rev. 3:4the garment defiled by the flesh.
Glory to God
24#(Eph. 3:20)Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling,
And #Col. 1:22to present you faultless
Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,
25To God our Savior,
Who alone is wise,
Be glory and majesty,
Dominion and power,
Both now and forever.
Amen.
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