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Greetings from Jude
(James 1:1-1)

1Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James,

To those called, having been loved in Godthe Father and having been kept in Jesus Christ.

2Mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.

God's Judgment on the Ungodly
(Genesis 4:1-7; Romans 2:1-16)

3Beloved, using all diligence to write to you concerning our common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhortingyou to contend earnestly for the faith having been delivered once for all to the saints.4For certain men came in stealthily, those having been designated long ago unto this condemnation, ungodlyones changing the grace of our God into sensuality and denying our only master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

5Now I want to remind you, you having known all this, that Jesus,a having saved at one time a people out ofthe land of Egypt, afterward He destroyed those not having believed.6Andthe angels not having kept theirown domain, but having abandoned the own dwelling, He keeps in eternal chains under darkness, untothe judgment ofthe great day;7just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having indulged in sexual immorality and having gone after strange flesh, in like manner with them are set forth as an example, undergoingthe penalty of eternal fire.

8Yet likewise also these dreamingones indeed defilethe flesh, and set aside authority, and blaspheme gloriousones.9But Michael the archangel, when he was reasoning with the devil, disputing about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring againsthim a blasphemous judgment, but he said “The Lord rebuke you.”b10But these indeed speak evil of whatever things they have not seen; and whatever things they understand naturally, as the irrational animals, in these things they corrupt themselves.11Woe to them, because they have gone in the way of Cain, and rushed for profit to the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

12These are the hidden reefs,c feasting togetherwith you fearlessly in your love feasts; shepherding themselves; clouds without water, being carried about by winds; autumnal trees without fruit, twice having died, having been uprooted;13wild waves ofthe sea, foaming out of theirown shame; wandering stars, to whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved tothe age.

14And Enoch,the seventh from Adam, also prophesied as to these, saying: “Behold,the Lord has come amidst myriads of His holyones,15to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly concerning all the works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and concerning all the harshthings that ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”d

16These are grumblers, discontented, following after the own lusts; and their mouth speaks great swellingwords, flattering faces for the sake of profit.

A Call to Persevere
(Hebrews 10:19-39)

17But you, beloved, remember the words having been spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,18that they were saying to you, “Inthe last time there will be scoffers, following after their own passions of ungodlinesses.”19These are those causing divisions, worldly-minded, not havingthe Spirit.

20But you, beloved, building up yourselves in your most holy faith, praying inthe Holy Spirit,21keep yourselves inthe love of God, awaiting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

22And indeed have mercy on those who are doubting;23and save others, snatchingthem out ofthe fire; and show mercy to others with fear, hating even the clothing having been stained by the flesh.

Doxology
(Romans 11:33-36; Romans 16:25-27)

24Now to Him being able to keep you from stumbling and to presentyou blameless in the presence of His glory, with exultation—25tothe only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord,be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and to all the ages.

Amen.