The General Letter of Jude in the Tyndale21 Version of the Holy Bible (© Copyright 2011 Abbott ePublishing. All Rights Reserved.) 1:1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called and sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, 1:2 Mercy to you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. 1:3 Dearly loved, when I gave all diligence to write to you about our common salvation, I felt the need to write and urge that you to continually labor for the faith that was once given to the saints. 1:4 For there are those who craftily snuck in, of whom it was written before in old times and faced condemnation. They are ungodly and turn the grace of our God into lechery and deny God, the only Lord and our Lord Jesus Christ. 1:5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though you once knew this - how that the Lord, after he had delivered the people out of the land of Egypt - destroyed those who afterward did not believe. 1:6 And the angels also who did not keep their first residence, but left their own habitation, he has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness until the judgment on the great day. 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, which in the same way defiled themselves with fornication and went after strange flesh, are set forth as an example of suffering the vengeance of eternal fire, 1:8 In the same way these dreamers make dirty the flesh, despise those who rule over them and speak evil of those who are in authority. 1:9 Yet Michael the archangel, when he argued with the devil and disputed over the body of Moses, did not dare bring against him an abusive accusation, but simply said, The Lord commands you! 1:10 But these speak evil of those things of which they do not know, but what they know naturally, like beasts that are without reason, and do not know the things with which they corrupt themselves. 1:11 Woe to them! Because they have followed the road of Cain, and are utterly given over to the error of Balaam for money’s sake and perished in the rebellion of Korah. 1:12 These are blemishes on your love feasts, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear, they are clouds without water, carried off by winds; trees whose fruit withers away, without fruit at the harvest, twice dead, ripped up by the roots; 1:13 They are raging waves in the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. 1:14 And Enoch, the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied of such people, saying, See, the Lord comes with thousands of his saints, 1:15 To execute judgment against all men, and to refute all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their cruel words, which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. 1:16 These are grumblers, complainers, walking after their own lusts, whose mouths speak proud things. They have men’s admiration because of advantage. 1:17 But, dearly loved ones, remember the words that were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; 1:18 How that they told you there would be mockers in the end time, who would walk after their own ungodly desires. 1:19 These are the creators of sects and divisions, having no Spirit. 1:20 But you, dearly loved ones, are building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 1:21 and keeping yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. 1:22 And have compassion on some of them, making a difference, 1:23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the clothes which are stained by their actions. 1:24 To those who are able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with love, 1:25 To God our Savior, be glory, majesty, dominion, and power, before all things, and now, and into all the ages both now and forever. Amen.