Jude / Appeal to Defend the Faith and Condemnation of False Teachers

Appeal to Defend the Faith and Condemnation of False Teachers

Jude 1:1-16

Chapter 1

¹ Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, to the ones loved in God the Father and kept in Jesus Christ, the called ones. ² May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. ³ Beloved, though I was making every effort to write to you about our common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith once for all delivered to the holy ones. ⁴ For certain men have sneaked in, who long ago were designated beforehand for this judgment, ungodly men who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny the only master and our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁵ But I want to remind you—though you once for all knew this—that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, the second time destroyed those who did not believe. ⁶ Angels also, the ones who did not keep their own principality but abandoned their own cosmic dwelling, he has kept with everlasting chains under outer darkness for judgment of the great day. ⁷ Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in a similar manner to these prostituted and gone after other flesh, are set forth as an example, undergoing the justice of eternal fire. ⁸ Likewise, however, these dreamers also defile the flesh, reject lordship, and blaspheme glories. ⁹ But Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil in a dispute over Moses' body, did not dare to bring a judgment of blasphemy, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you.” ¹⁰ But these people blaspheme as many things as they do not know, but as many things as they naturally understand, like irrational living creatures, in these they are corrupted. ¹¹ Woe to them, because they have gone in the way of Cain, and they have poured out in the error of Balaam for a reward, and they have perished in the opposition of Korah. ¹² These are hidden reefs in your love-feasts, feasting together without fear, shepherding themselves, waterless clouds carried along by winds, autumn trees fruitless, twice having died, uprooted, ¹³ wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shames, wandering stars for whom the gloom of the darkness has been kept forever. ¹⁴ But Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about these, saying, “Behold, the Lord came in his holy myriads.” ¹⁵ to execute judgment against all and to convict all the ungodly concerning all the works of ungodliness that they committed in their ungodliness and concerning all the harsh things that ungodly sinners spoke against him. ¹⁶ These are grumblers and faultfinders, walking according to their fleshly desires; their mouths speak arrogant things, and they admire faces for the sake of profit.