Jude Chapter 1

Greeting

1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
2 Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

False doctrines and false teachers

3 Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write and urge you to contend earnestly for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
4 For certain people have crept in unnoticed, those who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
5 But I want to remind you, although you once knew it, that the Lord, having saved a people out of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
6 And the angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper dwelling place, He has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness for the judgment of the great day.
7 Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities indulged in sexual immorality and perversion, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
8 In the same way, these dreamers also defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones.
9 Even Michael the archangel, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a blasphemous accusation against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”
10 But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and like unreasoning animals, they are corrupted by the things they do understand by instinct.
11 Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and for profit they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.
12 These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, feeding only themselves; waterless clouds, driven along by the winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead and uprooted;
13 wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
14 Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men, saying, “See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones,

15 to judge all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds that they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

16 These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own desires, whose mouth speaks boastful things, flattering people to gain advantage.

Admonitions and exhortations

17 But you, beloved, remember the words spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,
18 how they told you, “In the last time there will be scoffers who will walk according to their own ungodly desires.”
19 These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,
21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22 Convince those who doubt;
23 save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.

Doxology

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,
25 to the only God, our Savior, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.