Jude, servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are called, beloved in God the Father, and preserved by Jesus Christ:
mercy unto you, and peace and love be multiplied.
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered to the saints.
For certain men have crept in unawares. They, who before of old were ordained to this sentence, ungodly men turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness and denying our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ.
But I would remind you, though once for all knowing all things, that [the] Lord having saved a people out of Egypt’s land, in the second place destroyed those that believed not.
And angels which kept not their own original estate, but abandoned their proper dwelling, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under gloom unto [the] great day’s judgment;
as Sodom and Gomorrha and the cities around them, having in the like manner with them greedily committed fornication and gone after strange flesh, lie there an example, undergoing judgment of eternal fire.
Yet likewise, these dreamers also defile flesh, and set at nought lordship and rail at dignities.
But Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
But these rail at whatever things they know not; but whatever they understand naturally, as the irrational animals, in these things they corrupt themselves.
Woe unto them! because they went in the way of Cain, and rushed greedily into the error of Balaam’s hire, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.
These are spots in your love-feasts, feasting together, fearlessly pasturing themselves; clouds without water carried along by winds; autumnal trees without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;
raging sea-waves foaming out their own shames; wandering stars for whom hath been reserved the gloom of darkness forever.
And Enoch, seventh from Adam, prophesied also as to these, saying, Behold, [the] Lord came amid his holy myriads,
to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly [of them] of all their works of ungodliness which they ungodlily wrought, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners spoke against him.
These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts, and their mouth speaketh swelling things, admiring persons for the sake of profit.
But ye, beloved, remember ye the words that were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that they said to you, In [the] end of the time shall be mockers walking after their own lusts of ungodliness.
These are they that make separations, natural, not having [the] Spirit.
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in [the] Holy Spirit,
keep yourselves in [the] love of God, awaiting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto life eternal.
And some convict when contending;
others save, pulling them out of [the] fire; and others pity with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
But to him that is able to keep you without stumbling, and to set you with exultation blameless before his glory;
to an only God our Saviour through Jesus Christ our Lord [be] glory, majesty, might, and authority, before all times, and now, and unto all the ages. Amen.