\NormalFont\ShortTitle{Jude}
{\MT The Letter from Jude

\par }\OneChap {\PP \VerseOne{1}Jude,
a
servant
of
Jesus
Christ
and
the
brother
of
James,
to
those
of God's selection
who
have
been made holy
by
God
the
Father
and
are
kept
safe
for
Jesus
Christ:
\VS{2}May
mercy
and
peace
and
love
be
increased
in
you.
\VS{3}My loved
ones,
while
my thoughts
were
full
of
a
letter
which
I
was going
to send
you
about
our
common
salvation,
it
was
necessary
for
me
to send
you
one requesting
you
with
all
my heart
to go
on fighting strongly
for
the
faith
which
has
been
given
to
the
saints
once
and
for ever.
\VS{4}For
certain
men
have come
among
you secretly,
marked out
before
in
the holy Writings
for
this evil fate,
men
without
the fear
of
God, turning
his
grace
into
an unclean
thing,
and false
to
our
only
Master
and
Lord,
Jesus
Christ.
\VS{5}Now
it
is
my purpose
to
put
you
in mind,
though
you
once
had knowledge
of
all
these
things,
of
how
the
Lord, having taken
a
people
safely
out
of
Egypt,
later sent destruction
on
those
who
had
no
faith;
\VS{6}And
the
angels
who did
not
keep
to
their kingdom
but went
out
from
the place
which
was theirs,
he
has put
in
eternal
chains
and
in dark night till
the
great
day
of
the judging.
\VS{7}Even
as
Sodom
and
Gomorrah,
and
the
towns near
them, having
like
these, given
themselves up
to unclean desires
and
gone
after
strange
flesh,
have
been made
an
example,
undergoing
the
punishment
of
eternal
fire.
\VS{8}In
the
same
way
these dreamers make
the
flesh unclean, having no respect
for authorities,
and say
evil
of rulers.
\VS{9}Now
when
Michael,
one
of
the chief angels,
was fighting
against
the Evil
One
for
the
body
of
Moses, fearing
to
make use
of violent words
against
him,
he
only
said,
May
the
Lord
be
your
judge.
\VS{10}But
these
men say
evil
about
such
things
as
they
have
no knowledge
of;
and
the
things
of
which
they
have natural knowledge,
like beasts
without reason,
are
the cause
of
their destruction.
\VS{11}A curse
on
them!
They
have
gone
in
the
way
of
Cain, running uncontrolled
into
the
error
of
Balaam
for
reward,
and
have come
to destruction
by
saying evil
against
the Lord,
like
Korah.
\VS{12}These
men
are unseen rocks
at
your love-feasts,
when
they
take part
in
them
with
you, keepers
of
sheep
who
without
fear
take
the food
of
the
sheep;
clouds
without
water rushing
before
the
wind, wasted
trees
without
fruit,
twice
dead, pulled up
by
the roots,
\VS{13}Violent
waves
of
the
sea, streaming
with
their
shame,
wandering
stars
for
whom
the darkest night
is
kept
in store
for
ever.
\VS{14}The prophet
Enoch,
who
was
the
seventh
after
Adam,
said
of
these
men,
The
Lord
came
with tens
of
thousands
of
his
saints,
\VS{15}To
be
the judge
of
all,
and
to
give
a decision
against
all
those
whose lives
are unpleasing
to
him,
because
of
the evil
acts
which
they
have
done,
and
because
of
all
the
hard
things
which
sinners
without fear
of
God
have
said
against
him.
\VS{16}These
are
the
men
who make trouble, ever desiring change,
going
after evil pleasures, using
high-sounding
words, respecting men's position
in
the hope
of reward.
\VS{17}But
you,
my loved ones, keep
in memory
the
words
which
were said
before
by
the
Apostles
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
\VS{18}How
they
said
to
you,
In
the
last days
there
will
be
men
who, guided
by
their evil
desires,
will make sport
of holy
things.
\VS{19}These
are
the
men
who
make
divisions,
natural
men,
not
having
the
Spirit.
\VS{20}But
you,
my loved
ones,
building
yourselves
up
on
your
most
holy
faith,
and making
prayers
in
the
Holy
Spirit,
\VS{21}Keep
yourselves
in
the
love
of
God,
looking
for
life
eternal
through
the
mercy
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ.
\VS{22}And
have pity
on
those
who
are
in
doubt;
\VS{23}And
to
some give
salvation, pulling
them
out
of
the
fire;
and
on
some
have
mercy
with
fear,
hating
even
the clothing
which
is
made unclean
by
the
flesh.
\VS{24}Now
to
him
who
is
able
to
keep
you
from falling,
and
to give
you
a
place
in
his
glory, free
from
all evil,
with
great
joy,
\VS{25}To
the
only
God
our Saviour,
through
Jesus
Christ
our
Lord, let
us give
glory
and honour
and
authority
and
power,
before
all
time
and
now
and
for
ever.
So
be
it.
\par }