JUDE
1 Jude, the servant of Yahshua the Christ and brother of James, to them
that are sanctified by God the Father and preserved in Yahshua the Christ
[and] called:
2 Mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied.
3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation,
it was needful for me to write unto you and exhort [you] that ye should
earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
4 For certain ones crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this
condemnation, ungodly people, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness
and denying the only Master, even our Lord Yahshua the Christ.
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that
the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed
them that believed not;
6 And the angels which kept not their first estate,
but left their own habitation, He hath reserved in everlasting chains under
darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about
them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication and going after
strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal
fire.
8 Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and
speak evil of dignities.
9 Yet Michael the archangel, when, contending with the devil, he disputed about
the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said,
The Lord rebuke thee.
10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not; and what they know
naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of
Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in
the gainsaying of Core.
12 These are spots in your feasts of love when they feast with you, feeding
themselves without fear: [they are] clouds without water, carried about of
winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit,
twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to
whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
14 Moreover Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold,
the Lord cometh with ten thousands of His saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all their ungodly ones
of all their ungodly deeds which they ungodly committed and of all their hard
[speeches] which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their
mouth speaketh great swelling [words], admiring persons
for sake of advantage.
17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before by the apostles
of our Lord Yahshua the Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time who should
walk after their own ungodly lusts:
19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual,
having not the Spirit.
20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in
the Holy Spirit,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord
Yahshua the Christ unto eternal life:
22 Yea, of some have compassion, thoroughly discerning;
23 And others save with fear, pulling [them] out of the fire, hating even the
garment spotted by the flesh.
24 Now unto Him That is able to keep you from falling and to present [you]
faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,
25 To the only God our Saviour, [be] glory and majesty, dominion and power,
both now and ever. Amen.