Jude
Jude ©
1 After a general address, Jude exhorteth Christians to constancy in the received faith. 4 He foretelleth the punishment of certain false teachers crept into the church, and describeth their evil doctrine and manners. 20 He exhorteth true Christians to persevere in the right faith, and in the love of God; 22 and to seek the reformation of others. 24 He concludeth with ascribing glory to God.
JUDE,a the bservant of Jesus Christ, and brother of cJames, to them that dare sanctified by God the Father, and epreserved in Jesus Christ, and fcalled:
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the icommon salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that jye should earnestly contend for kthe faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
For there are certain men lcrept in unawares, who mwere before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, nturning the grace of our God into *lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
I owill 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.
And pthe angels which kept not their 1first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
qEven as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after 2strange flesh, rare set forth for an example, suffering sthe vengeance of eternal fire.
dThese are spots in your feasts of *charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: eclouds they are without water, fcarried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
lTo execute judgment upon all, and to *convince all that are ungodly among them mof all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their nhard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
oThese are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; pand their mouth speaketh great swelling words, qhaving men's persons in *admiration because of advantage.
How that they told you sthere should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
aAnd of some have compassion, making a difference: