1Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, who are beloved in God the Father and kept safe for Jesus Christ:G2455G1401G2424G5547G1161G80G2385G37G1722G2316G3962G2532G5083G2424G5547G28222May mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance.G1656G5213G2532G1515G2532G26G41293Beloved, while eagerly preparing to write to you about the salvation we share, I find it necessary to write and appeal to you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints.G27G4160G3956G4710G1125G5213G4012G2839G4991G2192G318G2192G1125G5213G3870G1864G4102G530G3860G404For certain intruders have stolen in among you, people who long ago were designated for this condemnation as ungodly, who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.G1063G5100G444G3921G3588G4270G3819G4270G1519G5124G2917G765G3346G5485G2257G2316G1519G766G2532G720G3441G1203G2316G2532G2257G2962G2424G55475Now I desire to remind you, though you are fully informed, that the Lord, who once for all saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.G1014G1161G5279G5209G5279G5209G530G1492G5124G3754G2962G4982G2992G1537G1093G125G1208G622G4100G33616And the angels who did not keep their own position, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deepest darkness for the judgment of the great Day.G5037G32G5083G3361G1438G746G235G620G2398G3613G5083G126G1199G5259G2217G1519G2920G3173G22507Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which, in the same manner as they, indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.G5613G4670G2532G1116G2532G4172G4012G846G3664G5125G5158G1608G2532G565G3694G2087G4561G4295G1164G5254G1349G166G44428Yet in the same way these dreamers also defile the flesh, reject authority, and slander the glorious ones.G3668G3305G2532G3778G1797G3392G3303G4561G1161G114G2963G1161G987G13919But when the archangel Michael contended with the devil and disputed about the body of Moses, he did not dare to bring a condemnation of slander against him, but said, "The Lord rebuke you!"G1161G3413G743G3753G1252G1228G1256G4012G4983G3475G5111G3756G2018G988G2920G235G2036G2962G2008G467110But these people slander whatever they do not understand, and they are destroyed by those things that, like irrational animals, they know by instinct.G1161G3778G987G3745G3303G1492G3756G1161G3745G1987G5447G5613G249G2226G1722G5125G535111Woe to them! For they go the way of Cain, and abandon themselves to Balaam's error for the sake of gain, and perish in Korah's rebellion.G3759G846G3754G4198G3598G2535G2532G1632G4106G903G3408G2532G622G485G287912These are blemishes on your love-feasts, while they feast with you without fear, feeding themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted;G3778G1526G4694G1722G5216G26G4910G5213G4165G1438G870G3507G504G4064G5259G417G1186G5352G175G1364G599G161013wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever.G66G2949G2281G1890G1438G152G4107G792G3739G5083G2217G4655G1519G16514It was also about these that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, "See, the Lord is coming with ten thousands of his holy ones,G1161G1802G2532G1442G575G76G4395G5125G3004G2400G2962G2064G1722G3461G846G4015to execute judgment on all, and to convict everyone of all the deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him."G4160G2920G2596G3956G2532G1827G3956G765G846G4012G3956G846G763G2041G3739G764G2532G4012G3956G4642G3739G765G268G2980G2596G84616These are grumblers and malcontents; they indulge their own lusts; they are bombastic in speech, flattering people to their own advantage.G3778G1526G1113G3202G4198G2596G846G1939G2532G846G4750G2980G5246G4383G2296G5484G562217But you, beloved, must remember the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;G1161G27G3415G5210G4487G3588G4280G5259G652G2257G2962G2424G554718for they said to you, "In the last time there will be scoffers, indulging their own ungodly lusts."G3754G3754G3004G5213G2071G1703G1722G2078G5550G4198G2596G1438G763G193919It is these worldly people, devoid of the Spirit, who are causing divisions.G3778G1526G592G1438G5591G2192G3361G415120But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;G1161G5210G27G2026G1438G5216G40G4102G4336G1722G40G415121keep yourselves in the love of God; look forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.G5083G1438G1722G26G2316G4327G1656G2257G2962G2424G5547G1519G166G222222And have mercy on some who are wavering;G2532G3303G3739G1653G125223save others by snatching them out of the fire; and have mercy on still others with fear, hating even the tunic defiled by their bodies.G1161G3739G4982G1722G5401G726G1537G4442G3404G2532G5509G4695G575G456124Now to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand without blemish in the presence of his glory with rejoicing,G1161G1410G5442G5209G846G679G2532G2476G299G2714G846G1391G1722G2025to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.G3441G4680G2316G2257G4990G1391G2532G3172G2904G2532G1849G2532G3568G2532G1519G3956G165G281
Dublin, OH
