Bible (American Standard)/Jude

The General Epistle of Jude
==Chapter 1==
 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James,
to them that are called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for
Jesus Christ: 
 Mercy unto you and peace and love be
multiplied. 
 Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to
write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to
write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith
which was once for all delivered unto the saints. 
 For
there are certain men crept in privily, [even] they who were of
old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men,
turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying
our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. 
 Now I desire to
put you in remembrance, though ye know all things once for all,
that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt,
afterward destroyed them that believed not. 
 And angels
that kept not their own principality, but left their proper
habitation, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under darkness
unto the judgment of the great day. 
 Even as Sodom and
Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with
these given themselves over to fornication and gone after
strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the
punishment of eternal fire. 
 Yet in like manner these also
in their dreamings defile the flesh, and set at nought dominion,
and rail at dignities. 
 But Michael the archangel, when
contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses,
durst not bring against him a railing judgment, but said, The
Lord rebuke thee. 
 But these rail at whatsoever things
they know not: and what they understand naturally, like the
creatures without reason, in these things are they destroyed.
 Woe unto them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran
riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the
gainsaying of Korah. 
 These are they who are hidden rocks
in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that
without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried
along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked
up by the roots; 
 Wild waves of the sea, foaming out their
own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness
hath been reserved forever. 
 And to these also Enoch, the
seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold, the Lord came
with ten thousands of his holy ones, 
 to execute judgment
upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of
ungodliness which they have ungodly wrought, and of all the hard
things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. 
 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts (and
their mouth speaketh great swelling [words]), showing respect of
persons for the sake of advantage. 
 But ye, beloved,
remember ye the words which have been spoken before by the
apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; 
 That they said to you,
In the last time there shall be mockers, walking after their own
ungodly lusts. 
 These are they who make separations,
sensual, having not the Spirit. 
 But ye, beloved, building
up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy
Spirit, 
 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for
the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. 
 And
on some have mercy, who are in doubt; 
 and some save,
snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with
fear; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. 
 Now
unto him that is able to guard you from stumbling, and to set
you before the presence of his glory without blemish in
exceeding joy, 
 to the only God our Saviour, through Jesus
Christ our Lord, [be] glory, majesty, dominion and power, before
all time, and now, and for evermore. Amen.