Translation:Jude

For other English-language translations of this work, see Jude (Bible).

Translation

¹ Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to those who are loved in God the Father, and kept safe in Jesus Christ, and are called: ² May mercy, peace, and love, to you be multiplied. ³ Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write to you about the common salvation, it was a necessity to write to you, and beseech you to contend for the faith once given to the saints. ⁴ For certain people have crept in unnoticed, who were long ago marked out for this condemnation: ungodly people, turning the grace of our God into debauchery, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁵ I wish to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, later destroyed those who did not believe. ⁶ And the angels which did not keep their positions of authority, but left their domain, he has kept in eternal bonds under darkness until the judgement of the great day. ⁷ Just as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in the same manner, practicing sexual immorality, and going after different flesh, lay before us as an example, suffering the justice of eternal fire. ⁸ Likewise, nevertheless, these dreamers defile the flesh, they renounce dominion, and vilify glorious beings. ⁹ Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil, disputing about the body of Moses, dared not bring a slanderous accusation against him, but said, "May the Lord rebuke you." ¹⁰ But these vilify things they do not know; but whatever they know naturally, like irrational animals, in these things they are corrupted. ¹¹ Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, and poured out after the deception of Balaam for money, and perished in the opposition of Korah. ¹² These people are blemishes at your love feasts, when they feast with you fearlessly, caring for themselves: they are waterless clouds, carried around by winds: trees that are withered, unfruitful, twice dead, uprooted; ¹³ Wild waves of the sea, frothing out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been preserved forever. ¹⁴ And the seventh from Adam, Enoch, prophesied of these, saying, "Lo, the Lord is coming with ten thousand of his holy ones," ¹⁵ "To execute judgment against all, and to utterly expose all the ungodly among them of all their ungodly acts which they have irreverently committed, and of all their harsh words which ungodly sinners have spoken against him." ¹⁶ These people are murmurers, complainers, going according to their desires; and their mouths speak arrogant things, flattering people for their own benefit. ¹⁷ But, beloved, remember the declarations which were previously declared by the apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁸ That they said, "In the end time, there will be scoffers, who will go according to their own ungodly desires." ¹⁹ These are the worldly-minded ones, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit. ²⁰ But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying to the Holy Spirit, ²¹ Keep yourselves in the love of God, anticipating the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, to eternal life, ²² And be merciful to those who doubt, ²³ But do so with caution, save them by snatching them out of the fire, hating even the clothing made unclean by the flesh. ²⁴ Now, to the one who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you flawless before the presence of his glory with rejoicing, ²⁵ To the only wise God, our Savior, be glory and majesty, might and authority, now and forever. Amen.