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            Jude English Standard Version (ESV)

chapter 1

     Greeting

     1Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James,To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and

     kept for Jesus Christ:

     2May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

     Judgment on False Teachers

     3Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to

     write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. 4For certain

     people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who

     pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

     5Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land

     of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. 6And the angels who did not stay within their own

     position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until

     the judgment of the great day-- 7just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise

     indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment

     of eternal fire.

     8Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and

     blaspheme the glorious ones. 9But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing

     about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, "The Lord

     rebuke you." 10But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all

     that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively. 11Woe to them! For they walked in the way of

     Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam's error and perished in Korah's rebellion.

     12These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, looking after themselves;

     waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted; 13wild waves of

     the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has

     been reserved forever.

     14It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came

     with ten thousands of his holy ones, 15to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their

     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." 16These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful

     desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.

     A Call to Persevere

     17But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. 18They said to

     you, "In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions." 19It is these who cause

     divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit. 20But you, beloved, build yourselves up in your most holy faith;

     pray in the Holy Spirit; 21keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ

     that leads to eternal life. 22And have mercy on those who doubt; 23save others by snatching them out of

     the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.

     Doxology

     24Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his

     glory with great joy, 25to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty,

     dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.