Jude 1

¹Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to those loved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ, called:

²Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.

³Beloved, while making every effort to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you, urging you to contend earnestly for the faith once for all delivered to the saints.

⁴For certain persons have slipped in stealthily, those long ago written about for this condemnation, ungodly ones who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

⁵Now I want to remind you, though you are fully aware of all these things, that Jesus, having once saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

⁶And the angels who did not keep their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling — he has kept them in eternal chains under deep darkness for the judgment of the great day;

⁷just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having indulged in sexual immorality in like manner with these and having gone after strange flesh, are set before us as an example by undergoing the penalty of eternal fire.

⁸Yet in the same way, these dreamers also defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones.

⁹But even Michael the archangel, when he was disputing with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous accusation against him, but said, 'May the Lord rebuke you.'

¹⁰But these men blaspheme whatever they do not understand, and in the things they do understand by instinct — like irrational animals — by these they are destroyed.

¹¹Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and they have abandoned themselves to Balaam's error for the sake of gain, and they have perished in Korah's rebellion.

¹²These are the dangerous reefs at your love-feasts, feasting with you without fear, shepherding only themselves; waterless clouds swept along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted;

¹³wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shameful deeds; wandering stars, for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever.

¹⁴It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying: 'Behold, the Lord came with his holy myriads,

¹⁵to execute judgment on all, and to convict every soul among them of all the ungodly deeds they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh words that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.'

¹⁶These are grumblers and malcontents, following their own desires; their mouth speaks bombastic words, while they flatter people for their own advantage.

¹⁷But you, beloved, remember the words spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁸how they said to you, 'In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly desires.'

¹⁹These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit.

²⁰But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,

²¹keep yourselves in the love of God, awaiting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.

²²And have mercy on those who are wavering;

²³save others by snatching them out of the fire; and on others have mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.

²⁴Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before his glorious presence with great joy —

²⁵to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.