Translation in British English
1:1 Jude, a bondsman of Jesus Christ and brother of James, addresses those consecrated by God the Father, shielded in Jesus Christ, and summoned:
1:2 May mercy, tranquility, and love be abundantly bestowed upon you.
1:3 Dear friends, while I was wholly dedicated to writing to you about our shared salvation, it became imperative for me to urge you to fervently champion the faith once entrusted to the saints.
1:4 For certain individuals have stealthily infiltrated, who were long ago predestined for this condemnation. These ungodly men pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Sovereign and Lord, Jesus Christ.
1:5 Thus, I intend to remind you, though you are already aware, that the Lord, having rescued the people from the land of Egypt, later annihilated those who did not believe.
1:6 And the angels who did not preserve their original position but abandoned their proper dwelling, He has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day.
1:7 Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
1:8 In the same way, these dreamers also defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme glorious beings.
1:9 Yet when Michael the archangel, disputing with the devil, argued about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
1:10 But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand; and they are corrupted by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively.
1:11 Woe to them! For they walk in the way of Cain, have rushed headlong into Balaam’s error for the sake of gain, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.
1:12 These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, feeding themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;
1:13 wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.
1:14 It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His holy ones,
1:15 to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their 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.”
1:16 These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they utter boastful words and flatter others for their own advantage.
1:17 But you, beloved, remember the words spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
1:18 how they told you that in the last time there would be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.
1:19 These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
1:20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
1:21 keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.
1:22 And have mercy on those who doubt;
1:23 save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.
1:24 Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of His glory with great joy,
1:25 to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.
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