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📚✭Jude, the servant✭ of Jesus Christ, and brother of James✭, to those who are sanctified✭ by God the Father, and preserved✭ in Jesus Christ, and called✭: 2 📚May mercy✭, peace✭, and love✭ be ever increasing toward you.The reason for writing
3 📚Dearly loved ones, while I was fully prepared to write to you about our common salvation✭, necessity drew me✭ to write to you and urge you to contend✭ earnestly for the faith✭ which was once for all delivered✭ to the saints✭. 4 📚✭For there are certain men who have crept in secretly✭, who were long before this marked out for this condemnation. They are ungodly✭ men who have turned the grace of our God into uncontrolled lust✭, and denied✭ the only Master✭, our God and Lord✭, Jesus Christ.
Examples of God’s judgment on evil in former times
5 📚So I want to remind✭ you, for you once came to know this, that the Lord✭, after rescuing people out of the land of Egypt, destroyed✭ those who did not believe.
6 📚And the angels who did not keep their first position✭ but left their own dwelling place✭, he has kept in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day✭.
7 📚Just as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, which in the same way✭ gave themselves up to sexual immorality and went after unnatural✭ flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire✭.
Evil men in the present time
8 📚In a similar way also these filthy dreamers✭ defile the flesh✭, reject authority✭, and speak evil of honored ones. 9 📚Yet Michael✭ the archangel, when he contended with the devil✭, disputing about the body of Moses✭, dared not bring against him an abusive accusation, but said, “The Lord rebuke you✭”.
They are spiritually ignorant
10 📚But these speak evil of✭ those things which they do not know; but what they know naturally✭, like brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
They follow the evil ways of 3 evil men
11 📚Woe✭ to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain✭ and for reward have run greedily after the error of Balaam✭, and have perished in the rebellion of Korah✭.
They are leaders in churches
12 📚These are blots in your love feasts✭, when they feast with you, looking after themselves✭ without fear✭. They are clouds without water✭, carried about✭ by winds; trees whose fruit wither, without fruit✭, twice dead✭, plucked up by the roots✭;
Their end will be terrible
13 📚raging waves✭ of the sea, foaming out their own shame✭; wandering stars✭, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness✭ forever.
Enoch prophesied about them
14 📚✭And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these people,✭ saying, “Look, the Lord is coming with ten thousands of his saints, 15 📚to execute judgment✭ upon all, and to convince all the ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all their hard words which ungodly sinners have spoken against him”.
Their character
16 📚✭These are grumblers, complainers, walking after their own lusts. And their mouth speaks great swelling words, flattering people for the sake of getting some advantage✭.
Christ’s apostles warned about them
17 📚But, dearly loved ones, remember✭ the words which were spoken previously by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, 18 📚how they told you there would be mockers in the last time who would walk after their own ungodly desires. 19 📚These are those who separate themselves, sensual, not having the Spirit✭.
How believers should behave
20 📚✭But you, dearly loved ones, building up yourselves✭ on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit✭, 21 📚✭keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy✭ of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life✭.
22 📚✭And have compassion on some people, making a distinction; 23 📚and others✭ save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Benediction