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footnote b">b</a>]</span> of Jesus Christ and brother of James,</span></p><p><span class="text">To those who are called, who are beloved<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-34929c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> in<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-34929d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> God the Father and kept safe for<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-34929e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> Jesus Christ:</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>May mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Occasion of the Letter</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Beloved, while eagerly preparing to write to you about the salvation we share, I find it necessary to write and appeal to you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>For certain intruders have stolen in among you, people who long ago were designated for this condemnation as ungodly, who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-34932f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span></span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Judgment on False Teachers</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Now I desire to remind you, though you are fully informed, that the Lord, who once for all saved<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-34933g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>And the angels who did not keep their own position, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deepest darkness for the judgment of the great day. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which, in the same manner as they, indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural lust,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-34935h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote h">h</a>]</span> serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Yet in the same way these dreamers also defile the flesh, reject authority, and slander the glorious ones.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-34936i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote i">i</a>]</span> </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>But when the archangel Michael contended with the devil and disputed about the body of Moses, he did not dare to bring a condemnation of slander<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-34937j" title="See footnote j">j</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote j">j</a>]</span> against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>But these people slander whatever they do not understand, and they are destroyed by those things that, like irrational animals, they know by instinct. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Woe to them! For they go the way of Cain, and abandon themselves to Balaam’s error for the sake of gain, and perish in Korah’s rebellion. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>These are blemishes<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-34940k" title="See footnote k">k</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote k">k</a>]</span> on your love-feasts, while they feast with you without fear, feeding themselves.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-34940l" title="See footnote l">l</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote l">l</a>]</span> They are waterless clouds carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>It was also about these that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, “See, the Lord is coming<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-34942m" title="See footnote m">m</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote m">m</a>]</span> with ten thousands of his holy ones, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>to execute judgment on all, and to convict everyone of all the deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>These are grumblers and malcontents; they indulge their own lusts; they are bombastic in speech, flattering people to their own advantage.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Warnings and Exhortations</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>But you, beloved, must remember the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>for they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, indulging their own ungodly lusts.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>It is these worldly people, devoid of the Spirit, who are causing divisions. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>keep yourselves in the love of God; look forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-34949n" title="See footnote n">n</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote n">n</a>]</span> eternal life. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>And have mercy on some who are wavering; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>save others by snatching them out of the fire; and have mercy on still others with fear, hating even the tunic defiled by their bodies.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-34951o" title="See footnote o">o</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote o">o</a>]</span></span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Benediction</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>Now to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand without blemish in the presence of his glory with rejoicing, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jude 1:1">Jude 1:1</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>Judas</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jude 1:1">Jude 1:1</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>slave</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jude 1:1">Jude 1:1</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities read <i>sanctified</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jude 1:1">Jude 1:1</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>by</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jude 1:1">Jude 1:1</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>by</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jude 1:4">Jude 1:4</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>the only Master and our Lord Jesus Christ</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jude 1:5">Jude 1:5</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities read <i>though you were once for all fully informed, that Jesus</i> (or <i>Joshua</i>) <i>who saved</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jude 1:7">Jude 1:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>went after other flesh</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jude 1:8">Jude 1:8</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>angels</i>; Gk <i>glories</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jude 1:9">Jude 1:9</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>condemnation for blasphemy</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jude 1:12">Jude 1:12</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>reefs</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jude 1:12">Jude 1:12</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>without fear. They are shepherds who care only for themselves</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jude 1:14">Jude 1:14</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>came</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jude 1:21">Jude 1:21</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>Christ to</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Jude 1:23">Jude 1:23</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>by the flesh</i>. The Greek text of verses 22–23 is uncertain at several points</span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. 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