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1:1  Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and the brother of James, to those who have been called, who are dear to God the Father and have been kept safe by Jesus Christ:
1:2  may mercy, peace, and love be granted you in abundance.
1:3  Beloved, I was just at the point of writing to you about the salvation we share, when it became necessary for me to write and urge you to fight earnestly for the faith that was once and for all entrusted to the saints.
1:4  For certain men have infiltrated your ranks, people who long ago were designated for condemnation. These godless persons pervert the grace of our God into an excuse for immorality and disown our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
1:5  Although you already know all this, allow me to remind you that the Lord, who once delivered the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who refused to believe.
1:6  Remember also that the angels, who were dissatisfied with the dominion that had been assigned to them and abandoned their proper dwelling place, have been kept bound by him in darkness with eternal chains until the judgment of the great Day.
1:7  And do not fail to remember Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring cities, which in a similar way indulged in sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who undergo the punishment of eternal fire.
1:8  In the same way, these dreamers defile their bodies, make light of authority, and insult celestial beings.
1:9  Even the archangel Michael, when he engaged in an argument with the devil about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous accusation against him, but instead said: “May the Lord rebuke you!”
1:10  However, these people pour abuse on anything they do not understand, and the very things that they know by instinct, like irrational animals, lead to their destruction.
1:11  Woe to them! They have followed in the footsteps of Cain; they have abandoned themselves to the error of Balaam for the sake of gain; and they have perished in the rebellion of Korah.
1:12  They are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without fear. They are shepherds who feed only themselves. They are like clouds blown about by winds without giving rain, or like trees in autumn barren and uprooted and so twice dead.
1:13  They are like wild sea waves whose foam reflects their shameless deeds, or like wandering stars for whom the gloom of darkness is stored up forever.
1:14  Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, also prophesied against them when he said, “Behold, the Lord is coming with tens of thousands of his saints,
1:15  to pronounce judgment on humanity and to convict all the ungodly for all the godless deeds that each has impiously committed and for all the defiant words spoken against him by godless sinners.”
1:16  These are grumblers and fault-finders. They indulge their own passions, and their mouths are full of bombastic talk as they flatter others in order to achieve their own ends.
1:17  But you, dear friends, must remember the predictions made by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1:18  For they said to you, “In the final age there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly passions.”
1:19  It is these people who create divisions, who follow their natural instincts and do not possess the Spirit.
1:20  However, you, dear friends, must build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit.
1:21  Keep yourselves in the love of God as you await our Lord Jesus Christ in his mercy, who will grant you eternal life.
1:22  Have compassion for those who are wavering.
1:23  Save others by snatching them out of the fire. And for still others have compassion mixed with fear, hating even the tunic defiled by their bodies.
1:24  Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to bring you safely to his glorious presence, unblemished and rejoicing,
1:25  to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ, our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority, before all time, now, and forevermore. Amen.