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Jude 1

A Greeting from Jude

(James 1:1)

1Jude, a servant of Yeshua Messiah and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified in God the Father and kept for Yeshua Messiah:

2May mercy, peace^a, and love be multiplied to you.

God’s Judgment on the Ungodly

(2 Peter 3:1–7)

3Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common Salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend earnestly for the faith that was once for all delivered to the holy ones. 4For certain people have crept in unnoticed — those who were written about long ago for this verdict^b — ungodly people who pervert the grace^c of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master, God, and Lord Yeshua Messiah.

5Now I want to remind you, though you once knew all this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward 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 gloomy darkness until the judgment^d of the great day — 7just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural flesh^e, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

8Yet in the same way these dreamers also defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones. 9But when the archangel Michael, disputing with the devil^g, was arguing about the body of Moses, he did not dare to bring a blasphemous judgment against him, but said, "The Lord rebuke you."^f 10But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like irrational animals, understand by instinct. 11Woe to them, for they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves to Balaam's error for the sake of gain and perished in Korah's rebellion.

12These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherding themselves; waterless clouds swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted; 13wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.

14It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His holy ones,

15to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against Him."

16These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own desires, and their mouths speak arrogant words, flattering people to gain advantage.^h

A Call to Persevere

(Hebrews 10:19–39; 2 Peter 3:1–7)

17But you, beloved, remember the words spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Yeshua Messiah,ⁱ 18how they said to you, "In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly desires."^j 19These are the ones who cause divisions — soul-driven^k people who do not have the spirit^l.

20But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy^m faith and praying in the holy spirit, 21keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Yeshua Messiah that leads to eternal lifeⁿ.

22And on some have mercy, who are wavering; 23but others save with fear, snatching them out of the fire, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.

Doxology

(Romans 16:25–27)

24Now to Him who is able to keep them from stumbling and to present them blameless before His glory^o with great joy — 25to the only wise God our Savior — be glory and majesty, dominion^p and authority^q, both now and for all the ages. Amen.