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Book 65 Jude
65:001:001 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:
65:001:002 Mercy unto you, and
peace, and love, be multiplied.
65:001:003 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.
65:001:004 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.
65:001:005 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.
65:001:006 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.
65:001:007 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.
65:001:008 Likewise also these
filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise
dominion, and speak
evil of dignities.
65:001:009 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.
65:001:010 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.
65:001:011 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.
65:001:012 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;
65:001:013 Raging waves of the
sea, foaming out their own shame;
wandering stars, to
whom is reserved the blackness of darkness
for ever.
65:001:014 And Enoch also, the
seventh from Adam, prophesied of these,
saying, Behold, the
Lord cometh with ten thousands of his
saints,
65:001:015 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.
65:001:016 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.
65:001:017 But, beloved, remember
ye the words which were spoken before
of the apostles of our
Lord Jesus Christ;
65:001:018 How that they told you
there should be mockers in the last
time, who should walk
after their own ungodly lusts.
65:001:019 These be they who
separate themselves, sensual, having not the
Spirit.
65:001:020 But ye, beloved,
building up yourselves on your most holy
faith, praying in the
Holy Ghost,
65:001:021 Keep yourselves in the
love of God, looking for the mercy of
our Lord Jesus Christ
unto eternal life.
65:001:022 And of some have
compassion, making a difference:
65:001:023 And others save with
fear, pulling them out of the fire;
hating even the garment
spotted by the flesh.
65:001:024 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,
65:001:025 To the only wise God
our Saviour, be glory and majesty,
dominion and power,
both now and ever. Amen.
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