1 Jude, who willingly belongs to Jesus Christ,
brother of James, to those who have been set apart
and loved by God the Father, kept perfectly in Jesus
Christ, and surnamed His sons,
2 His tender compassion toward you, and peace and
love be multiplied to you.
3 Beloved,
when I was compelled to write to you concerning the
salvation in which we share, it became absolutely
necessary for me to write, and urge you that you
should diligently contend for the faith which was
once and for all time delivered to the saints in
Jesus Christ.
4 Because certain men have come in stealthily, who
are walking in the way that God has judged from the
beginning only brings corruption and death, ungodly
men who exchange the judgment of God in Christ to
give us blessing and life as a gift into an
unbridled lust for life through the strength
contained in their flesh and rejecting the life of
the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
5 I will remind you, though you once knew this, how
the Lord, who saved His people out of the bondage of
Egypt, by His strength alone, which people afterward
forsook the judgment and promise of God for their
own way, utterly perished in the wilderness in their
unbelief in His promise to give them the land as a
gift.
6 And the angels which kept not their original
design but forsook their habitation for darkness are
now bound in everlasting chains under the judgment
of darkness of that great day.
7 Just as Sodom and Gomorrah also exchanged the life
of their design and went a whoring after other gods,
and were given over to their desire for vile sexual
activity with different flesh, serve as an example
to us, heaping unto themselves suffering, having
gone out of the way that leads to life, but
continued in the way God judged from the beginning
could only bring them grief and sorrow, destruction,
and death.
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Likewise those who have crept in are beguiled in
their imaginations of the life they can bring forth
in their own strength, which way defiles their
flesh; having rejected and set aside divine
judgment, they are not afraid to speak against God
or man.
9 Yet even Michael the archangel when he disputed
with the accuser, over whether the body of Moses
belonged to the Lord, dared not bring an accusation
of his own but simply said, the Lord’s judgment is
against you.
10 But these men speak their own private judgments
of those things which they have no intimate
knowledge: but rather having become intimately
acquainted with their own fleshly desires they have
become like wild beasts, not human (void of all
rational thought and judgment) who bring
corruption upon themselves.
11 Woe to them! For they have gone the same way as
Cain (whose work to establish his own life by the
fruit he could gather to himself, God judged as
unjust and that which leads to backbiting, jealousy,
and murder), and like Balaam they have rushed
unrestrained in their lust for life for the reward
that they can bring themselves, and perish the same
way as Korah, by standing opposed to the judgment of
God unto life.
12 These are the ones who secretly sit with you in
your feasts of love, and when you take the Lord’s
supper, but all the while they are feeding their
bellies with their flesh, having no reverence to the
way of the Lord unto life, not eating from the table
prepared by the Lord. They are empty vessels, tossed
around by the wind, trees whose fruit withers and is
scorched by the heat, bearing no fruit, and are
twice dead, having been delivered from Adam's death,
they are now dead in their own iniquity, and plucked
up by the roots;
13 Raging waves tossed by the sea that find no rest,
but continually spue out their own shame; stars void
of light that wander aimlessly, who heap to
themselves despair and the certainty of the
blackness of darkness forever.
14 And Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied
of these, saying, Behold, when the Lord Jesus comes
with tens of thousands of His saints,
15 To bring the justice (of His life) to all
His beloved, and (the brightness of His
countenance) lays bare the secrets in the
heart of those who have given no reverence to the
way that (God has judged) leads to life that
stand among them, it will reveal that it is their
own works they have worked that bring shame and
condemnation to their hearts (not God who
condemns them), and proving that their hard
words (have only brought labors and annoyances)
which words they have spoken contrary to Him who
gives His blessing and life as a gift.
16 These are grumblers (and complainers) who
blame others for their discontentment, and live by
their unquenchable appetite (to do, to get and to
have) life through the strength contained in
their flesh (never finding satisfaction); and
their mouth speaks greatly exaggerated and
flattering words that advance their own agenda with
rich and educated men who they hold in high regard
in order to gain money, influence and power.
17 But I call to your remembrance beloved, the words
which were spoken before by the apostles (Paul
and Peter) of our Lord Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there would be false
teachers in the last days (of death in the earth)
who will depart from the faith of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and (instead) will walk after their
own lust (to do, to get and to have life) by
the strength contained in their flesh.
19 These are those who cause division, who teach and
are mindful of the principles contained in the world
(and the practice of will worship), having
not the Spirit of God.
20 But you who have the Spirit (who is always
pointing to the faith contained in Jesus Christ)
are built up in the inner man, being persuaded (that
being dead to death you are alive to God) that
you are set apart unto His same life, always
speaking in and listening to the Holy Ghost (as
He comforts you of the certainty of that life),
21 Whereby He keeps you abiding in the love of God,
where (there is no occasion of stumbling) and
you continually (fellowship with Him) looking
for the comfort only He can bring (from the
corruption in the world) through the mercy and
lovingkindness of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal
life.
22 And some will teach the loving compassion of our
Lord Jesus, (by declaring the faith of Him)
making a difference:
23 And thereby giving all reverence to the way unto
life will rescue them from perishing in the fervent
heat, they will be like one who is plucked out of
the fire (unscorched); and hating (because
it can perish), the spotted garment of their
corruptible flesh (He will clothe upon them with
His incorruption).
24 Now to Him who is able to keep you from falling (so
that you will not cower away in fear), but
present you faultless (undefiled and without
blame, in His life and immortality) before the
presence of His glory with exceeding joy,
25 To the God of all wisdom our Savior, be glory and
majesty, dominion, and power, both right now and
forever. Amen.
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