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{\MTB The Letter from
\par }{\MT Jude

\par }\OneChap {\SH Introduction
\par }{\PP \VerseOne{1}To
those
who,
having
received
the
call,
have
been
loved
by
God
the
Father
and
protected
by
Jesus
Christ,
From
Jude,
a
servant
of
Jesus
Christ,
and
the
brother
of
James.
\VS{2}May
mercy,
peace,
and
love
be
yours
in
ever
increasing
measure.
\par }{\SH Warnings
against
moral
corruption
\par }{\PP \VS{3}Dear
friends,
while
I
was
making
every
effort
to
write
to
you
about
our
common
salvation,
I
felt
that
I
must
write
to
you
at
once
to
encourage
you
to
fight
in
defence
of
the
faith
that
has
once
for
all
been
entrusted
to
the
keeping
of
Christ’s
people.
\VS{4}For
there
have
crept
in
among
you
certain
godless
people,
whose
sentence
has
long
since
been
pronounced,
and
who
make
the
mercy
of
God
an excuse
for profligacy,
and disown
our
only
lord
and
master,
Jesus
Christ.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}Now
I
want
to
remind
you –
but
you
already
know
it
all –
that,
though
the
Lord
delivered
the
people
from
Egypt,
yet
he
afterwards
destroyed
those
who
refused
to
believe
in
him;
\VS{6}and
that
even
those
angels,
who
did
not
keep
to
their
appointed spheres,
but
left
their
proper
homes,
have
been
kept
by
him
for
the
judgment
of
the
great
day
in
everlasting
chains
and
black
darkness.
\VS{7}Like
Sodom
and
Gomorrah
and
the
towns
near
them,
which
gave
themselves
up
to
fornication,
and
fell
into unnatural vice,
these
angels
now
stand
out
as
a
warning,
undergoing,
as
they
are,
punishment
in
eternal
fire.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}Yet
in
the
same
way
these
people,
too, cherishing
vain
dreams,
pollute
our
human nature,
reject
control,
and malign
the celestial
beings.
\VS{9}Yet
even
Michael,
the archangel,
when,
in
his
dispute
with
the
devil,
he
was
arguing
about
the
body
of
Moses,
did
not
venture
to
charge
him
with maligning,
but
said
merely “The
Lord
rebuke
you!”
\VS{10}But
these
people malign
whatever
they
do
not
understand;
while
they
use
such
things
as
they
know
by
instinct (like
the
animals
that
have
no
reason)
for
their
own
corruption.
\VS{11}Alas
for
them!
They
walk
in
the
steps
of
Cain;
led
astray
by
Balaam’s
love
of
gain,
they
plunge
into
sin,
and
meet
their
ruin
through
rebellion
like
Korah.
\VS{12}These
are
the
people
who
are blots
on
your “love-feasts,”
when
they
feast
together
and
provide
without scruple
for
themselves
alone.
They
are
clouds
without
rain,
driven
before
the
winds;
they
are leafless
trees
without
a vestige
of
fruit,
dead
through
and
through,
torn
up
by
the
roots;
\VS{13}they
are
wild
sea
waves, foaming
with
their
own
shame;
they
are “wandering
stars,”
for
which
the blackest
darkness
has
been
reserved
for
ever.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}To
these
people,
as
to
others,
Enoch,
the
seventh
in
descent
from
Adam,
declared – “See!
The
Lord
has
come
with
his
hosts
of
holy
ones
around
him,
\VS{15}to
execute
judgment
on
all
people,
and
to
convict
all
godless
people
of
all
their
godless
acts,
which
in
their
ungodliness
they
have
committed,
and
of
all
the
harsh
words
which
they
have
spoken
against
him,
godless
sinners
that
they
are!”
\par }{\PP \VS{16}These
people
are
always murmuring,
and
complaining
of
their
lot;
they
follow
where
their
passions
lead
them;
they
have
arrogant
words
on
their
lips;
and
they
flatter
others
for
the
sake
of
what
they
can
get
from
them.
\par }{\BB \par }{\PP \VS{17}But
you
should,
dear
friends,
recall
what
was foretold
by
the apostles
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ;
\VS{18}how
they
used
to
say
to
you – “As
time
draws
to
an
end,
there
will
be
scoffers,
who
will
be
led
by
their
godless
passions.”
\VS{19}These
are
the
people –
animal
and unspiritual –
who
cause
divisions.
\VS{20}But
you
must,
dear
friends,
build
up
your characters
on
the
foundation
of
your
most
holy
faith,
pray
under
the
guidance
of
the
Holy
Spirit,
\VS{21}and
keep
within
the
love
of
God,
while
waiting
for
the
mercy
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
to
bring
you
to
eternal
life.
\VS{22}To
some
show
pity,
because
they
are
in
doubt. “Drag
them
out
of
the
fire,”
and
save
them.
\VS{23}To
others
show
pity,
but
with caution,
hating
the
clothing
polluted
by
their
touch.
\par }{\SH Ascription
\par }{\PP \VS{24}To
him
who
is
able
to
guard
you
from
falling,
and
to
bring
you
into
his
glorious
presence,
blameless
and
rejoicing –
\VS{25}to
the
one
God,
our
Saviour,
be
ascribed,
through
Jesus
Christ,
our
Lord,
glory,
majesty,
power,
and
dominion,
as
it
was
before
time
began,
is
now,
and
will
be
for
all
time
to
come.
Amen.\par }