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King James Bible
Greetings from Jude
(James 1:1-1)
1Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the
Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, [and] called: 2Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be
multiplied.
God's Judgment on the Ungodly
(Genesis 4:1-7; Romans 2:1-16)
3Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for
me to write unto you, and exhort [you] that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was
once delivered unto the saints. 4For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of
old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness,
and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
5I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having
saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. 6And the
angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in
everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. 7Even as Sodom and
Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and
going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8Likewise also these [filthy] dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
9Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses,
durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. 10But these speak
evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those
things they corrupt themselves. 11Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran
greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. 12These are
spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds
[they are] without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice
dead, plucked up by the roots; 13Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame;
wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
14And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh
with ten thousands of his saints, 15To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are
ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all
their hard [speeches] which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. 16These are murmurers,
complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling [words],
having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
A Call to Persevere
(Hebrews 10:19-39)
17But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus
Christ; 18How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after
their own ungodly lusts. 19These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
20But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal
life. 22And of some have compassion, making a difference: 23And others save with fear, pulling
[them] out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Doxology
(Romans 11:33-36; Romans 16:25-27)
24Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present [you] faultless before the
presence of his glory with exceeding joy, 25To the only wise God our Saviour, [be] glory and
majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.