1 Scroll 34 Epistle of Jude.
Judas[Jude], the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James,
to them who having been sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called.
2 Mercy to you, and peace, and love, may be multiplied.
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Beloved, when I using all diligence to write to you concerning the common Salvation,
it was needful for me to write to you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith,
which was once delivered to the Saints.
4 For certain men have 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 Master God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
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But I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, that the Lord,
having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, the second time, destroyed them that not believed.
6 And the Angels who kept not their first state, but left their own habitation,
He has reserved in eternal chains under darkness to the judgment of the Great Day.
7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to impurity,
and going after other flesh, are set forth for an example, undergoing the vengeance of everlasting fire.
8 However, likewise these dreaming also defile flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of glories.
9 Yet Michael the Archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses,
dared not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, May the Lord rebuke Thee.
10 But these, of those things which they have not known, they speak evil:
but what they know naturally, as brute animals, in those things they corrupt themselves.
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Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain,
and run greedily after the error for reward of Balaam,
and perished in the contradiction of Korah.
12 These are spots in your feasts of love, when they feasting with you,
feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water,
being carried about by winds; withered autumnal trees,
without fruit, twice dead, plucked out by the roots;
13 raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars,
to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these,
saying, Behold, the LORD comes with myriads of His Saints,
15 to execute judgment upon all, and to convict 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 speaks great swelling words, marvelling persons because of advantage.
17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were said you before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
18 that they told you there will be mockers in the last time, who would walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19 These are they who separating themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most Holy faith, praying by the Holy Spirit,
21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to everlasting life.
22 And of some have mercy, making a difference:
23 and others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the coat spotted by the flesh.
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Now to Him that is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you faultless before His glory in gladness,
25 to the only wise God, our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen!