Jude 1

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A Greeting from Jude

¹Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James,

To those who are called, loved by God the Father, and kept in Jesus Christ:

¹Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, To those called, having been loved in God the Father and having been kept in Jesus Christ.

²Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

²Mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.

God’s Judgment on the Ungodly

³Beloved, although I made every effort to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt it necessary to write and urge you to contend earnestly for the faith entrusted once for all to the saints.

³Beloved, using all diligence to write to you concerning our common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith having been delivered once for all to the saints.

⁴For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

⁴For certain men came in stealthily, those having been designated long ago unto this judgment, ungodly ones changing the grace of our God into sensuality and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

⁵Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus^a had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe.

⁵Now I want to remind you—you knowing all things once for all—that Jesus, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, secondly destroyed those not having believed.

⁶And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.

⁶And the angels not having kept their domain, but having abandoned their own dwelling, He has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness unto the judgment of the great day,

⁷In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.

⁷as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, in like manner to these having indulged in sexual immorality and having gone after other flesh, are set forth as an example, undergoing the penalty of eternal fire.

⁸Yet in the same way these dreamers defile their bodies, reject authority, and slander glorious beings.

⁸Yet likewise also these dreaming ones indeed defile the flesh, and set aside authority, and blaspheme glorious ones.

⁹But even the archangel Michael, when he disputed with the devil over the body of Moses, did not presume to bring a slanderous charge against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”^a

⁹But Michael the archangel, when disputing with the devil, reasoning about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring against him a judgment of blasphemy, but he said, “The Lord rebuke you!”

¹⁰These men, however, slander what they do not understand, and like irrational animals, they will be destroyed by the things they do instinctively.

¹⁰But these indeed blaspheme whatever things they have not seen; and whatever things they understand naturally, as the irrational animals, in these things they corrupt themselves.

¹¹Woe to them! They have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed for profit into the error of Balaam; they have perished in Korah’s rebellion.

¹¹Woe to them, because they went in the way of Cain, and they rushed for profit to the error of Balaam, and they perished in the rebellion of Korah.

¹²These men are hidden reefs^a in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.

¹²These are the ones in your love feasts, hidden reefs feasting with you fearlessly, shepherding themselves; clouds without waters, being carried about by winds; autumnal trees without fruit, twice having died, having been uprooted;

¹³They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.

¹³wild waves of the sea, foaming out of their shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of darkness has been kept unto the age.

¹⁴Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them:

“Behold, the Lord is coming

with myriads of His holy ones

¹⁴And Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied as to these, saying: “Behold, the Lord came amidst myriads of His holy ones,

¹⁵to execute judgment on everyone,

and to convict all the ungodly

of every ungodly act of wickedness

and every harsh word spoken against Him by ungodly sinners.”^a

¹⁵to do judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly concerning all their works of ungodliness that they did in an ungodly way, and concerning all the harsh things that ungodly sinners spoke against Him.”

¹⁶These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage.

¹⁶These are grumblers, discontented, going according to their own passions; and their mouth speaks great swelling words, flattering faces for the sake of profit.

A Call to Persevere

¹⁷But you, beloved, remember what was foretold by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ

¹⁷But you, beloved, remember the words having been spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁸when they said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow after their own ungodly desires.”^a

¹⁸that they were saying to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, going according to their own passions of ungodlinesses.”

¹⁹These are the ones who cause divisions, who are worldly and devoid of the Spirit.

¹⁹These are those causing divisions, natural men, not having the Spirit.

²⁰But you, beloved, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,

²⁰But you, beloved, building up yourselves in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

²¹keep yourselves in the love of God as you await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life.

²¹keep yourselves in the love of God, awaiting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

²²And indeed, have mercy on those who doubt;

²²And indeed have mercy on those who are doubting;

²³save others by snatching them from the fire; and to still others show mercy tempered with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

²³and save others, snatching them out of the fire; and show mercy to others with fear, hating even the clothing having been stained from the flesh.

Doxology

²⁴Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—

²⁴Now to Him being able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless in the presence of His glory, with exultation—

²⁵to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority through Jesus Christ our Lord before all time, and now, and for all eternity.

Amen.

²⁵to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and to all the ages. Amen.