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The General Epistle of
Jude
CHAPTER 1
Chapter 1
Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the
Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ,
and
called:
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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 there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of
old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness,
and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus 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.
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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.
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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
filthy
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.
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But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally,
as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
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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 charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves
without fear: clouds
they are
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
And Enoch
also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten
thousands of his saints,
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To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among
them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard
speeches
which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
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These are murmurers, complainers, walking
after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling
words,
having men’s persons in
admiration because of advantage.
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