Jude 1
World English Bible (WEB) • 25 verses
1Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
2May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
3Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
4For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
5Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.
RelatedHebrews 3:16-4:2 · Numbers 26:64-65 · 1 Corinthians 10:1-12 · Psalms 106:26 · Numbers 14:22-37 · Deuteronomy 2:15-16
6Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
7Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
RelatedDeuteronomy 29:23 · 2 Peter 2:6 · Romans 1:26-27 · Genesis 19:24-26 · Genesis 18:20 · Genesis 13:13
8Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.
9But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”
RelatedZechariah 3:2 · 2 Peter 2:11 · Deuteronomy 34:6 · Revelation 12:7 · Daniel 12:1 · Daniel 10:21
10But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.
11Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.
Related2 Peter 2:15 · 1 John 3:12 · Revelation 2:14 · Genesis 4:3-14 · Hebrews 11:4 · Numbers 16:1-35
12These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
RelatedMatthew 15:13 · 2 Peter 2:17-20 · Ezekiel 34:8 · Proverbs 25:14 · Philippians 3:19 · Ephesians 4:14
13wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
Related2 Peter 2:17 · Philippians 3:19 · Isaiah 57:20 · Psalms 65:7 · 2 Timothy 3:13 · Revelation 14:10-11
14About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
RelatedDeuteronomy 33:2 · Psalms 50:3-5 · Hebrews 11:5-6 · 2 Thessalonians 1:7-8 · 1 Thessalonians 3:13 · Matthew 16:27
15to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
Related1 Corinthians 4:5 · 1 Timothy 1:9 · Ecclesiastes 11:9 · Romans 14:10 · Revelation 22:12-15 · Romans 2:16
16These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
17But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
18They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”
Related2 Peter 3:3 · 2 Timothy 4:3 · 2 Timothy 3:1-5 · 2 Timothy 3:13 · 1 Timothy 4:1-2 · 2 Peter 2:1
19These are those who cause divisions and are sensual, not having the Spirit.
20But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
RelatedEphesians 6:18 · Romans 8:26-27 · 1 Corinthians 14:15 · Colossians 2:7 · 1 Thessalonians 5:11 · 1 Corinthians 14:4-5
21Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
Related1 John 4:16 · Hebrews 9:28 · Lamentations 3:25-26 · 2 Peter 3:12 · John 15:9-10 · 2 Thessalonians 3:5
22On some have compassion, making a distinction,
23and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
Related1 Timothy 4:16 · 1 Corinthians 15:33 · Revelation 3:4 · 2 Corinthians 7:10-12 · 2 Thessalonians 3:14 · Romans 11:14
24Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,
Related2 Timothy 4:18 · Ephesians 3:20 · Colossians 1:22 · John 10:29-30 · Hebrews 13:20-21 · Ephesians 5:27
25to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.
Related1 Timothy 1:17 · Revelation 5:13-14 · John 5:44 · 1 Peter 5:10-11 · Revelation 4:9-11 · Romans 11:36
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