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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Jude 1 Mace New Testament</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jude/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jude/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Mace</a> > Jude 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../3_john/1.htm" title="3 John 1">◄</a> Jude 1 <a href="../revelation/1.htm" title="Revelation 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Mace New Testament</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/jude/1-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">A Greeting from Jude<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../james/1.htm">James 1:1</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jude/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Jude the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those that are sanctified by God the father, and by their vocation are reserved for Jesus Christ. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jude/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>mercy, peace and love be multiplied to you.<p> <A name="4"></a><p class="hdg">God’s Judgment on the Ungodly<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_peter/2.htm">2 Peter 3:1–7</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jude/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>My beloved, as I was strongly bent upon writing to you of our common salvation, I thought it necessary to write to you at present, and exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith, which was once delivered to the saints. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jude/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For certain men have insinuated themselves among you, who were formerly proscrib'd to be punish'd; impious men, who pervert the divine favour to licentiousness, and renounce their only master, and Jesus Christ our Lord.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jude/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Now, I would call to your remembrance what you once were inform'd of, that when the Lord had delivered the people from the land of Egypt, he afterward destroyed those that were disobedient. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jude/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and the angels which kept not their original dignity, but deserted their proper abode, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, to the judgment of the great day. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jude/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>so it was with Sodom, Gomorrha, and the neighbouring cities, who abandoning themselves to the same licentiousness and abominable passions, were made examples by suffering the punishment of eternal fire.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jude/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>yet these visionary debauchees despise princes, and traduce dignitys. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jude/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>whereas Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil, he disputed about the body of Moses, did not take the liberty to inveigh against him, but said, "the Lord rebuke thee." <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jude/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>As for these, they inveigh against what they do not understand: and abuse those natural instincts which regulate brute animals. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jude/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>unhappy creatures! they have followed the practices of Cain, they have addicted themselves to the mercenary illusions of Balaam, and perish in their rebellion like Core. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jude/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>they are a disgrace to your love-feasts, they indulge themselves at your festivals without reserve: clouds without water, transported with every wind: trees whose fruit soon withers and is useless, twice dead and rooted up: <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jude/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame: wandering lights, to whom is reserv'd the thickest darkness for ever.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jude/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Of these did Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesy in these words, "see! the Lord is coming with ten thousand of his saints, <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jude/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the impious among them, of all the impious actions they have committed, and of all the injurious expressions, which impious sinners have utter'd against him." <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jude/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>These are murmurers, complainers, who pursue their own passions: their language swells with flattery, which they offer to the personages of men from a prospect of gain.<p> <A name="18"></a><p class="hdg">A Call to Persevere<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../hebrews/10.htm#19">Hebrews 10:19–39</a>; <a href ="../2_peter/3.htm">2 Peter 3:1–7</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jude/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>As for you, my beloved, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ have formerly told you. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jude/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>for they assur'd you, there would be impostors in the last days, who would follow their own impious passions. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jude/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>these are they who distinguish themselves, though they are sensual, and have nothing that is spiritual. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jude/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>but you, my brethren, improve yourselves in your most holy faith, present your addresses by the holy spirit, <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jude/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and thereby cultivate the divine favour, in the expectation of eternal life by the mercy of Jesus Christ our Lord. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jude/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Make use of your discernment; some reprove: <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jude/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>of others be compassionately tender, snatching them, as it were, out of the fire: and avoid even the garment of the infected.<p> <A name="25"></a><p class="hdg">Doxology<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../romans/16.htm#25">Romans 16:25–27</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jude/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Now to him that is able to keep you from falling, and make you appear in his glorious presence, without defect, and full of joy: <span class="reftext"><a href="/jude/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>to God only wise, our saviour, be glory, magnificence, power, and empire, both now and for ever.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Daniel Mace New Testament (1729)<br><br>Digital Text Courtesy <a href="https://theword.net">TheWord.net Bible Software</a>.<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../3_john/1.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="3 John 1"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="3 John 1" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../revelation/1.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Revelation 1"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Revelation 1" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>