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Jude 1 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Greeting to the Called
Maintain Your Life with God
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:1 - Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James,
To those who are called, sanctified[fn] by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ:
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:2 - Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
Contend for the Faith
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:3 - Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:4 - For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God[fn] and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Old and New Apostates
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:5 - But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:6 - And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day;
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:7 - as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:8 - Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries.
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:9 - Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:10 - But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:11 - Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.
Apostates Depraved and Doomed
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:12 - These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about[fn] by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots;
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:13 - raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:14 - Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints,
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:15 - “to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”
Apostates Predicted
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:16 - These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage.
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:17 - But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ:
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:18 - how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts.
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:19 - These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.
Maintain Your Life with God
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:20 - But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:21 - keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:22 - And on some have compassion, making a distinction;[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:23 - but others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire,[fn] hating even the garment defiled by the flesh.
Glory to God
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:24 - Now to Him who is able to keep you[fn] from stumbling,
And to present you faultless
Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,
Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:25 - To God our Savior,[fn]
Who alone is wise,[fn]
Be glory and majesty,
Dominion and power,[fn]
Both now and forever.
Amen.
NKJV Footnotes
NU-Text reads beloved.
NU-Text omits God.
NU-Text and M-Text read along.
NU-Text reads who are doubting (or making distinctions).
NU-Text adds and on some have mercy with fear and omits with fear in first clause.
M-Text reads them.
NU-Text reads To the only God our Savior.
NU-Text omits Who . . . is wise and adds Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
NU-Text adds Before all time.
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