Sunday, October 19, 2025

Jude

1    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 Gomorrha, 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 those speak evil of those things which they know not:  but what they know
    naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

11    Woe 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 thousands of his saints,

15    To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them
    of all 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 other 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.  
    
    Jude - KJV

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