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Jude, a bond servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to themthose thatwho are the called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: |
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MercyMay untomercy you and peace and love be multiplied to you. |
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Beloved, while I was givingmaking allevery diligenceeffort to write unto you ofabout our common salvation, I wasfelt constrainedthe necessity to write untoto you exhortingappealing that you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered untoto the saints. |
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For therecertain arepersons certainhave men crept in privilyunnoticed, eventhose they who were oflong oldbeforehand writtenmarked ofout beforehandfor unto this condemnation, ungodly men,persons turningwho turn the grace of our God into lasciviousness,licentiousness and denyingdeny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. |
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Now I desire to putremind you in remembrance, though yeyou know all things once for all, that the Lord, havingafter savedsaving a people out of the land of Egypt, afterwardsubsequently destroyed themthose thatwho believeddid not believe. |
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And angels thatwho keptdid not keep their own principalitydomain, but leftabandoned their proper habitationabode, heHe hathhas kept in everlastingeternal bonds under darkness untofor the judgment of the great day. |
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EvenJust as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities aboutaround them, havingsince they in likethe mannersame withway as these givenindulged themselvesin overgross toimmorality fornication and gonewent after strange flesh, are setexhibited forth as an example, sufferingin undergoing the punishment of eternal fire. |
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Yet in likethe same manner these men, also inby theirdreaming, dreamings defile the flesh, and setreject at nought dominionauthority, and railrevile atangelic dignitiesmajesties. |
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But Michael the archangel, when contendinghe disputed with the devil heand disputedargued about the body of Moses, durstdid not bringdare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said, The Lord rebuke theeyou. |
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But these railmen atrevile whatsoeverthe things which they knowdo not: understand; and whatthe things which they understandknow naturallyby instinct, like theunreasoning creatures without reasonanimals, inby these things they are they destroyed. |
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Woe untoto them! forFor they wenthave ingone the way of Cain, and ranfor riotouslypay inthey have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the gainsayingrebellion of Korah. |
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These men are theythose who are hidden rocksreefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear, feedcaring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twicedoubly dead, plucked up by the rootsuprooted; |
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wild waves of the sea, foamingcasting outup their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the blacknessblack of darkness hathhas been reserved for everforever. |
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And toabout these also Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold, the Lord came with tenmany thousands of hisHis holy ones, |
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to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their worksungodly ofdeeds ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly wroughtway, and of all the hardharsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against himHim. |
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These are murmurersgrumblers, complainersfinding fault, walkingfollowing after their own lusts; andthey theirspeak mouth speaketh great swelling wordsarrogantly, showingflattering respectpeople of persons for the sake of gaining an advantage. |
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But yeyou, beloved, ought to remember ye the words whichthat havewere been spoken beforebeforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;, |
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that they saidwere saying to you, In the last time there shall be mockers, walkingfollowing after their own ungodly lusts. |
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These are theythe ones who makecause separationsdivisions, sensualworldly minded, havingdevoid notof the Spirit. |
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But yeyou, beloved, building yourselves up yourselves on your most holy faith,; praying in the Holy Spirit,; |
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keep yourselves in the love of God, lookingwaiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ untoto eternal life. |
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And have mercy on some have mercy, who are in doubtdoubting; |
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andsave some saveothers, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear;, hating even the garment spottedpolluted by the flesh. |
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Now untoto himHim thatwho is able to guardkeep you from stumbling, and to setmake you beforestand in the presence of hisHis glory withoutblameless blemishwith ingreat exceeding joy, |
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to the only God our SaviourSavior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and powerauthority, before all time, and now, and for evermoreforever. Amen. |