Jude 1
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1Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the called ones who are loved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ: 2May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you. 3Beloved, while I was making every effort to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you, exhorting you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. 4For certain people have slipped in secretly, those who were marked out long ago for this judgment, ungodly people, who turn the grace of our God into depravity and deny our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ. 5Now I desire to remind you, even though you know all things, that the Lord, having once saved a people out of the land of Egypt, the second time destroyed those who did not believe. 6And the angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloom for the judgment of the great day; 7just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, which in the same way as these gave themselves over to sexual immorality and went after other flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire. 8Yet in the same way, these dreamers, on the one hand, defile the flesh; but they reject authority, and they blaspheme glorious ones. 9But Michael the archangel, when debating with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous judgment against him, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!” 10But these blaspheme whatever they do not know; but whatever they understand instinctively, like unreasoning animals, in these things they are destroyed. 11Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and abandoned themselves to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. 12These are the hidden rocks in your love feasts, feasting together with you without fear, shepherding themselves; waterless clouds, carried along by winds; fruitless autumn trees, twice dead, uprooted; 13wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shames; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved forever. 14Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied also about these, saying, “Look, the Lord came with his holy myriads, 15to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly among them of all their works of ungodliness which they have ungodly committed, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” 16These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own desires; and their mouth speaks arrogant things, flattering people for the sake of advantage. 17But you, beloved, remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, 18how they said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking according to their own desires for ungodlinesses.” 19These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, not having the Spirit. 20But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. 22And have mercy on some who are doubting; 23and save some, snatching them out of the fire; and have mercy on some with fear, hating even the tunic stained by the flesh. 24Now to him who is able to guard you without stumbling, and to set you without blemish before the presence of his glory with exultation, 25to the only wise God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all the age, and now, and unto all the ages. Amen.
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Jude: Contend for the Faith
Jude urgently writes to believers, warning them of ungodly infiltrators and calling them to stand firm in the historic faith, ending with a majestic promise of God's protecting power.
The New Consensus Bible text of Jude 1, read aloud over the chapter’s eight scenes. The words appear below as they are read.
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