The General Epistle of JUDE

[1 Jude exhorteth Christians to constancy in the received faith; 4 he foretelleth
the punishment of certain false teachers.]

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:
2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
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.
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. 
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.
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. 
7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, 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. 
8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the
flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
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.
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.
11 Wo 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.
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; 
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their 
own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved 
the blackness of darkness for ever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam,
prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh 
with ten thousand of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince 
all that are ungodly among them of their ungodly
deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of 
all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have 
spoken against him.
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.
17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which
were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord
Jesus Christ:
18 How that they told you there should be 
mockers in the last time, who should walk after 
their own ungodly lusts.
19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, 
having not the Spirit. 
20 But ye beloved, building up yourselves on 
your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, 
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for 
the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22 And of some have compassion, making a 
difference:
23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of 
the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
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,
25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and 
majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.