1:1 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:

1:2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.

1:3 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.

1:4 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.

1:5 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.

1:6 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.

1:7 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.

1:8 Likewise also these [filthy] dreamers defile the flesh,

despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

1:9 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.

1:10 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.

1:11 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.

1:12 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;

1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame;

wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness

for ever.

1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these,

saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his

saints,

1:15 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.

1:16 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.

1:17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken

before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

1:18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last

time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

1:19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not

the Spirit.

1:20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy

faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy

of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

1:22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:

1:23 And others save with fear, pulling [them] out of the fire;

hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

1:24 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,

1:25 To the only wise God our Saviour, [be] glory and majesty,

dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

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