New American Bible - Revised Edition/The Letter of Jude

**The Letter of Jude**, as translated by the Co-Fraternity of Christian Doctrine in the New American Bible - Revised Edition.

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## READING GUIDE (THE CATHOLIC STUDY BIBLE - THIRD EDITION)

 **JUDE**

 **[see pages 1749–1751 of the New Testament]**

 **BEFORE BEGINNING. . .**

### The Obscurity of Jude

Although Jude is among the shortest writings in the New Testament, it
bristles with difficulties. Some of these have to do with placing the
composition in the historical development of early Christianity. Others
involve grasping its language, which has a number of obscure allusions.
The two sorts of problems are related. Our ignorance of the author and his
circumstances prevents us from having a secure context for reading the
letter. But because Jude so obviously was responding to some kind of
specific crisis, every attempt must be made to construct such a context if the
letter is to yield any sense at all.

The introduction in the NABRE **(New Testament,** **p.** **1749)** states the
majority scholarly opinion on most of the questions concerning authorship
and occasion. Jude is considered a general epistle of relatively late date. It is
an attack on false teachers, probably representing some form of Gnosticism
(an early deviant form of Christianity stressing “self-fulfillment”). Another
reading of the evidence suggests that Jude could have been written at
virtually any period and was concerned less with false teaching than with
bad behavior. This minority view will be developed in the paragraphs to
follow. The main point, of course, is to make as good sense as possible out
of the letter.

### Literary Connections

Far more puzzling than the identity of Jude is the placement of his letter
among other early Christian literature. The author mentions an earlier draft
he had begun, when the crisis among his readers demanded his turning
attention to the polemic now being read by them **(Jude 1:3).** What was that earlier
version? A not entirely unrelated issue is the relation of Jude to **2 Peter.**

Everyone recognizes that the material in **2 Peter 2** is similar to that in **Jude**
**1:5–Jude 1:13.** Less clear is whether one author depended on the other, or both relied
on a shared earlier tradition. Neither should the resemblance be overstated.
Jude is not simply a source for **2 Peter.** Each sharpens the material to a
different polemical point.

Further literary puzzles are provided by Jude’s literary allusions. He
cites examples of sinners being punished. Some are readily apparent from
the Bible, although a few (like Balaam) may derive as well from Jewish
biblical interpretation. Jude also cites the apocryphal writing known as 1
Enoch as though it were Scripture **(Jude 1:14).** And his version of the dispute
between Michael and Satan over the body of Moses appears to derive from
another apocryphal writing, The Assumption of Moses **(Jude 1:9).** His reference to
the “words spoken . . . by the apostles” **(Jude 1:17)** is no clearer, since it is more an
amalgam of early Christian statements on the end-time **(cf.,** **Mark 13:22;** **And** **1**
**Timothy 4:1–1 Timothy 3)** than a specific citation.

That an author could assume familiarity with such sources among his
readers seems to presuppose either a Jewish-Christian readership, or a
Gentile one familiar with Jewish apocrypha. What the ancient readers
presumably understood, we do not, and the lack of literary context
continues to make this letter obscure to present-day readers.

### Historical Setting

Writings like **2 Peter** and **Jude** remind us how little we know about early
Christianity apart from the chronology provided by Acts and Paul’s letters.
We cannot fit them into any development we know about and must rely on
guesswork. Every hypothesis, furthermore, is based solely on the text itself.
Precision concerning what the text does and does not say is obviously
critical to the value of any reconstruction.

Jude clearly takes a polemical stand against opponents and exhorts its
readers to remain steadfast. Contrary to the usual opinion, however, the text
contains no clear indication that Jude was opposing “false teachers” or that
they were purveying any “heresy.” Their “scorning of Lordship” **(Jude 1:4,** **And** **Jude 1:8)**
seems to have been practical rather than theoretical. Jude attacks immoral
behavior rather than false teaching. So thorough is his disparagement,
indeed, that it is hard to know even what they were doing. He specifically
accuses them of disrupting the community love feasts. The term is usually
taken to mean eucharistic meals. They are also accused of carousing and of
looking after only themselves **(literally:** **“shepherding themselves,”** **Jude 1:12).** He
also calls their behavior “divisive” **(Jude 1:19).** Otherwise, Jude uses all the
standardized charges common to the polemic of the ancient world: they are
sexually immoral **(Jude 1:7),** greedy **(Jude 1:11,** **And** **Jude 1:16),** slanderous **(Jude 1:15),** and living for their
own desires **(Jude 1:16).** In short, they “live on the natural plane, devoid of the
Spirit” **(Jude 1:19).** They “pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness” **(Jude 1:4).**

### Living by God’s Grace

Letters of Paul such as **1 Corinthians** attest how difficult it was for the early
Christians to translate the gift of God (grace) into consistent patterns of
moral behavior. Legitimate disagreement could exist on matters of diet,
work, use of possessions, and the like. It was not immediately obvious in all
cases what “life in the Spirit” meant behaviorally. In the case of Jude,
however, it appears that disagreement has overstepped the boundary into
true moral deviance; hence the outrage of the author. The opponents are
“perverting the gift.”

Jude’s first line of defense is an attack on the immoral people. He tries to
demonstrate from Scripture how there have always been such
troublemakers, and they have always been punished. These will be
punished as well. In contrast to **2 Peter 2,** in which the emphasis is on the
power of God to judge the righteous and unrighteous, in Jude the stress is
entirely on the punishment of the rebellious.

The polemic is not random but carefully argued, with some rhetorical
polish. Notice the repetition of “these people” in verses **Jude 1:8,** **Jude 1:10,** **Jude 1:12,** **Jude 1:16,** **And**
**Jude 1:19,** which brings the examples of old to bear on the present circumstances.
Jude also plays on the Greek words for “keep” in verses **Jude 1:1,** **Jude 1:6,** **Jude 1:13,** **Jude 1:21,** **And**
**Jude 1:24.** His opponents fail to “keep their place,” but Jude’s readers are to “keep
themselves in the love of God” who is, in turn, able to “keep them from
stumbling.”

Jude’s second line of defense is to edify (“build up”) his readers in their
“most holy faith” **(Jude 1:20).** He reminds them that God dealt with troubles like
these from of old, and in fact the apostles of Jesus had foretold the
emergence of such rebellious “scoffers” **(Jude 1:18f).** He reassures them that they
are being “kept safe for Jesus Christ” despite this turmoil **(Jude 1:1).** Jude does not
suggest that it is the believers’ role to punish the reprobate. He exhorts them
to avoid such immoral behavior **(Jude 1:23)** and to build up their own faith. If the
opponents are “devoid of the Spirit,” the believers are to “pray in the holy
Spirit” **(Jude 1:20).** But their love for God is to be demonstrated in an attitude of
mercy and care for those who waver and even for those who appear to be
lost **(Jude 1:22f).**

Jude’s witness is a limited one. But the use of moral outrage is not
entirely exhausted by the circumstances of the first century. The tendency to
turn grace into libertinism is a perennial one. Combining justifiable outrage
at license with mercy for the licentious is a delicate and difficult art. Few
writings have carried it off as well as Jude.

### FURTHER READING

Harrington, Daniel, S.J. Jude and 2 Peter. Sacra Pagina. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2003.

Kelly, J. N. D. The Epistles of Peter and Jude. Harper New Testament Commentary. New York:
Harper & Row, 1969.

Kraftchick, S. J. Jude; 2 Peter. Abingdon New Testament Commentaries. Nashville: Abingdon,

## INTRODUCTION

 **THE LETTER OF JUDE**

This letter is by its address attributed to “Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ and brother of James” (Jude 1). Since he is not identified as an apostle, this designation can hardly be meant to refer to the Jude or Judas who is listed as one of the Twelve (Lk 6:16; Acts 1:13; cf. Jn 14:22). The person intended is almost certainly the other Jude, named in the gospels among the relatives of Jesus (Mt 13:55; Mk 6:3), and the James who is listed there as his brother is the one to whom the Letter of James is attributed (see the Introduction to James).

Nothing else is known of this Jude, and the apparent need to identify him by reference to his better-known brother indicates that he was a rather obscure personage in the early church.

The letter is addressed in the most general terms to “those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept safe for Jesus Christ” (Jude 1), hence apparently to all Christians. But since its purpose is to warn the addressees against false teachers, the author must have had in mind one or more specific Christian communities located in the unidentified region where the errors in question constituted a danger. While the letter contains some Semitic features, there is nothing to identify the addressees specifically as Jewish Christians; indeed, the errors envisaged seem to reflect an early form of gnosticism, opposed to law, that points rather to the cultural context of the Gentile world. Like James and 2 Peter, the Letter of Jude manifests none of the typical features of the letter form except the address.

There is so much similarity between Jude and 2 Peter, especially Jude 4–16 and 2 Pt 2:1–18, that there must be a literary relationship between them. Since there is no evidence for the view that both authors borrowed from the same source, it is usually supposed that one of them borrowed from the other. Most scholars believe that Jude is the earlier of the two, principally because he quotes two apocryphal Jewish works, the Assumption of Moses (Jude 9) and the Book of Enoch (Jude 14–15) as part of his structured argument, whereas 2 Peter omits both references. Since there was controversy in the early church about the propriety of citing noncanonical literature that included legendary material, it is more probable that a later writer would omit such references than that he would add them.

Many interpreters today consider Jude a pseudonymous work dating from the end of the first century or even later. In support of this view they adduce the following arguments: (a) the apostles are referred to as belonging to an age that has receded into the past (Jude 17–18); (b) faith is understood as a body of doctrine handed down by a process of tradition (Jude 3); (c) the author’s competent Greek style shows that he must have had a Hellenistic cultural formation; (d) the gnostic character of the errors envisaged fits better into the early second century than into a period several decades earlier. While impressive, these arguments are not entirely compelling and do not completely rule out the possibility of composition around the year A.D. 80, when the historical Jude may still have been alive.

This little letter is an urgent note by an author who intended to write more fully about salvation to an unknown group of readers, but who was forced by dangers from false teachers worming their way into the community (Jude 3–4) to dash off a warning against them (Jude 5–16) and to deliver some pressing Christian admonitions (Jude 17–23). The letter is justly famous for its majestic closing doxology (Jude 24–25).

## CHAPTER 1

### Address and Greeting.

**1**

Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept safe for Jesus Christ:
**2** may mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance.

### Occasion for Writing.

**3** Beloved, although I was making every effort to write to you about our common salvation,

I now feel a need to write to encourage you to contend for the faith that was once for all handed down to the holy ones.

**4** For there have been some intruders, who long ago were designated for this condemnation, godless persons, who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

### The False Teachers.

**5**

I wish to remind you, although you know all things, that [the] Lord who once saved a people from the land of Egypt later destroyed those who did not believe.

**6**

The angels too, who did not keep to their own domain but deserted their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains, in gloom, for the judgment of the great day.

**7** Likewise, Sodom, Gomorrah, and the surrounding towns, which, in the same manner as they, indulged in sexual promiscuity and practiced unnatural vice,

serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

**8** Similarly, these dreamers

nevertheless also defile the flesh, scorn lordship, and revile glorious beings. **9** Yet the archangel Michael, when he argued with the devil in a dispute over the body of Moses, did not venture to pronounce a reviling judgment

upon him but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”

**10** But these people revile what they do not understand and are destroyed by what they know by nature like irrational animals.

**11** Woe to them!

They followed the way of Cain, abandoned themselves to Balaam’s error for the sake of gain, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

**12** These are blemishes on your love feasts,

as they carouse fearlessly and look after themselves. They are waterless clouds blown about by winds, fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead and uprooted.

**13** They are like wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameless deeds, wandering stars for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved forever.

**14**

Enoch, of the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied also about them when he said,

“Behold, the Lord has come with his countless holy ones **15** to execute judgment on all and to convict everyone for all the godless deeds that they committed and for all the harsh words godless sinners have uttered against him.” **16** These people are complainers, disgruntled ones who live by their desires; their mouths utter bombast as they fawn over people to gain advantage.

### Exhortations.

**17** But you, beloved, remember the words spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

**18** for they told you,

“In [the] last time there will be scoffers who will live according to their own godless desires.”

**19** These are the ones who cause divisions; they live on the natural plane, devoid of the Spirit.

**20** But you, beloved, build yourselves up in your most holy faith; pray in the holy Spirit.

**21** Keep yourselves in the love of God and wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.

**22** On those who waver, have mercy;

**23** save others by snatching them out of the fire; on others have mercy with fear,

abhorring even the outer garment stained by the flesh.

### Doxology.

**24** To the one who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished and exultant, in the presence of his glory,
**25** to the only God, our savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord be glory, majesty, power, and authority from ages past, now, and for ages to come. Amen.

## FOOTNOTES

**Jude 1:1:**
**Jude…brother of James:**

for the identity of the author of this letter,

**see** **The Epistle of Jude: Introduction.**
**To those who are called:**

the vocation to the Christian faith

is God’s free gift to those whom he loves

and whom he safely protects in Christ

until the Lord’s second coming.
**Jude 1:3:**
**Our common salvation:**

the teachings

of the Christian faith

derived from the apostolic preaching

and to be kept by the Christian community.
**Jude 1:5:**

For this first example of divine punishment

on those who had been saved but did not then keep faith,

**see** **Numbers 14:28–Numbers 14:29**
**and** **the** **note** **there.**

Some manuscripts have the word “once”

**(hapax** **as** **at** **Jude 1:3)**

after “you know”;

some commentators have suggested

that it means “knowing one thing”

or

“you know all things once for all.”

Instead of “[the] Lord” manuscripts vary,

having “Jesus,” “God,” or no subject stated.
**Jude 1:6:**

This second example

draws on **Genesis 6:1–Genesis 6:4**

as elaborated in the apocryphal Book of Enoch **(cf.** **Jude 1:14):**

heavenly beings came to earth and had sexual intercourse with women.

God punished them by casting them out of heaven into darkness and bondage.
**Jude 1:7:**
**Practiced unnatural vice:**

literally, “went after alien flesh.”

This example derives from **Genesis 19:1–Genesis 19:25,**

especially **Genesis 19:4–Genesis 19:11,**

when the townsmen of Sodom

violated both hospitality and morality

by demanding that Lot’s two visitors

(really messengers of Yahweh)

be handed over to them so that they could abuse them sexually.

**Unnatural vice:**

this refers to the desire for intimacies

by human beings with angels (the reverse of the example in Jude 6).

Sodom (whence “sodomy”) and Gomorrah became proverbial as object lessons

for God’s punishment on sin

**(Isaiah 1:9;** **Jeremiah 50:40;** **Amos 4:11;** **Matthew 10:15;** **And** **2 Peter 2:6).**
**Jude 1:8:**
**Dreamers:**

the writer returns to the false teachers of **Jude 1:4,**

applying charges from the three examples in **Jude 1:5,** **Jude 1:6,** **And** **Jude 1:7.**

This may apply to claims they make for revelations

they have received by night

(to the author, hallucinations).

Defile the flesh:

this may mean bodily pollutions

from the erotic dreams of sexual license **(Jude 1:7).**

Lordship…glorious beings:

these may reflect the Lord

**(Jude 1:5;**
**Jesus,**
**Jude 1:4)**

whom they spurn and the angels

**(Jude 1:6;**
**cf.** **note** **on** **2 Peter 2:10,**
**here,** **as** **there,** **literally,** **“glories”).**
**Jude 1:9:**
**The archangel Michael...judgment:**

a reference to an incident in the apocryphal Assumption of Moses.

**Deuteronomy 34:6** had said of Moses,

literally in Greek,

“they buried him”

or

“he (God?) buried him”

(taken to mean “he was buried”).

The later account tells how Michael,

who was sent to bury him,

was challenged by the devil’s interest in the body.

Our author draws out the point that

if an archangel refrained from reviling even the devil,

how wrong it is for mere human beings

to revile glorious beings (angels).
**Jude 1:11:**
**Cain...Balaam...Korah:**

examples of rebellious men

and

of the punishment their conduct incurred;

**cf.** **Genesis 4:8–Genesis 4:16;** **Numbers 16:1–Numbers 16:35;** **And** **Numbers 31:16.**
**See** **note** **on** **2 Peter 2:15.**
**Jude 1:12:**
**Blemishes on your love feasts:**

or “hidden rocks” or “submerged reefs”

**(cf.** **Jude 1:13).**

The opponents engaged in scandalous conduct

in connection with community gatherings

called love feasts (agape meals),

which were associated with eucharistic celebrations

at certain stages of early Christian practice;

**cf.** **1 Corinthians 11:18–1 Corinthians 11:34** **and** **the** **note** **on** **2 Peter 2:13.**
**Jude 1:14-Jude 1:15:**

Cited from the apocryphal

**Book** **of** **Enoch 1:9.**
**Jude 1:18:**

This is the substance of much early Christian preaching

rather than a direct quotation of any of the various New Testament passages on this theme

**(see** **Mark 13:22;** **Acts 20:30;** **1 Timothy 4:1–1 Timothy 4:3;** **And** **2 Peter 3:3).**
**Jude 1:22:**
**Have mercy:**

some manuscripts read “convince,” “confute,” or “reprove.”

Others have “even though you waver” or “doubt” instead of

**who waver.**
**Jude 1:23:**
**With fear:**

some manuscripts connect the phrase

“with fear”

with the imperative

“save”

or

with the participle

“snatching.”

Other manuscripts omit the phrase

“on others have mercy,”

so that only two groups are envisioned.

Rescue of those led astray and caution in the endeavor are both enjoined.

**Outer garment stained by the flesh:**

the imagery may come from **Zechariah 3:3–Zechariah 3:5,**

just as that of

**snatching...out of the fire**

comes from **Zechariah 3:2;**

the very garments of the godless are to be abhorred

because of their contagion.
**Jude 1:24-Jude 1:25:**

With this liturgical statement

about the power of God to keep the faithful from stumbling,

and praise to him through Jesus Christ,

the letter reaches its conclusion

by returning to the themes with which it began **(Jude 1:1–Jude 1:2).**

## CROSS-REFERENCES

**Jude 1:1:**
**Matthew 13:55,** **Mark 6:3,** **Acts 12:17,** **And** **Romans 1:7.**
**Matthew 13:55. NABRE:**
**55** Is he not the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother named Mary and his brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas?

**Mark 6:3. NABRE:**
**3** Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.

**Acts 12:17. NABRE:**
**17** He motioned to them with his hand to be quiet and explained [to them] how the Lord had led him out of the prison, and said, “Report this to James and the brothers.” Then he left and went to another place.

**Romans 1:7. NABRE:**
**7** to all the beloved of God in Rome, called to be holy. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
**Jude 1:2:**
**Galatians 6:16,** **1 Timothy 1:2,** **And** **2 Peter 1:2.**
**Galatians 6:16. NABRE:**
**16** Peace and mercy be to all who follow this rule and to the Israel of God.

**1 Timothy 1:2. NABRE:**
**2** to Timothy, my true child in faith: grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

**2 Peter 1:2. NABRE:**
**2** may grace and peace be yours in abundance through knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

**II. Exhortation to Christian Virtue**
**The Power of God’s Promise.**
**Jude 1:3:**
**Jude 1:17,** **Jude 1:20,** **And** **1 Timothy 6:12.**
**Jude 1:17. NABRE:**
**Exhortations.**
**17** But you, beloved, remember the words spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

**Jude 1:20. NABRE:**
**20** But you, beloved, build yourselves up in your most holy faith; pray in the holy Spirit.

**1 Timothy 6:12. NABRE:**
**12** Compete well for the faith. Lay hold of eternal life, to which you were called when you made the noble confession in the presence of many witnesses.
**Jude 1:4:**
**Galatians 2:4,** **2 Timothy 3:6,** **And** **2 Peter 2:1.**
**Galatians 2:4. NABRE:**
**4** but because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy on our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, that they might enslave us—

**2 Timothy 3:6. NABRE:**
**6** For some of these slip into homes and make captives of women weighed down by sins, led by various desires,

**2 Peter 2:1. NABRE:**
**III. Condemnation of the False Teachers**
**Chapter 2**
**False Teachers.**
**1** There were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will introduce destructive heresies and even deny the Master who ransomed them, bringing swift destruction on themselves.
**Jude 1:5:**
**Numbers 14:35,** **1 Corinthians 10:5,** **Hebrews 3:16,** **And** **Hebrews 3:17.**
**Numbers 14:35. NABRE:**
**35** I, the Lord, have spoken; and I will surely do this to this entire wicked community that conspired against me: here in the wilderness they shall come to their end and there they will die.”

**1 Corinthians 10:5. NABRE:**
**5** Yet God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the desert.

**Hebrews 3:16. NABRE:**
**16** Who were those who rebelled when they heard? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt under Moses?

**Hebrews 3:17. NABRE:**
**17** With whom was he “provoked for forty years”? Was it not those who had sinned, whose corpses fell in the desert?
**Jude 1:6:**
**2 Peter 2:4,** **And** **2 Peter 2:9.**
**2 Peter 2:4. NABRE:**
**Lessons from the Past.**
**4** For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but condemned them to the chains of Tartarus and handed them over to be kept for judgment;

**2 Peter 2:9. NABRE:**
**9** then the Lord knows how to rescue the devout from trial and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,
**Jude 1:7:**
**Deuteronomy 29:22-Deuteronomy 29:24,** **Matthew 25:41,** **2 Thessalonians 1:8-2 Thessalonians 1:9,** **2 Peter 2:6,** **And** **2 Peter 3:7.**
**Deuteronomy 29:22-Deuteronomy 29:24. NABRE:**
**22** all its soil burned out by sulphur and salt, unsown and unfruitful, without a blade of grass, like the catastrophe of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his furious wrath— **23** they and all the nations will ask, “Why has the Lord dealt thus with this land? Why this great outburst of wrath?” **24** And they will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he had made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,

**Matthew 25:41. NABRE:**
**41** Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

**2 Thessalonians 1:8-2 Thessalonians 1:9. NABRE:**
**8** in blazing fire, inflicting punishment on those who do not acknowledge God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. **9** These will pay the penalty of eternal ruin, separated from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power,

**2 Peter 2:6. NABRE:**
**6** and if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah [to destruction], reducing them to ashes, making them an example for the godless [people] of what is coming;

**2 Peter 3:7. NABRE:**
**7** The present heavens and earth have been reserved by the same word for fire, kept for the day of judgment and of destruction of the godless.
**Jude 1:9:**
**Daniel 10:21,** **And** **Daniel 12:1.**
**Daniel 10:21. NABRE:**
**21** but I shall tell you what is written in the book of truth. No one supports me against these except Michael, your prince, **1** and in the first year of Darius the Mede I stood to strengthen him and be his refuge.

**Daniel 12:1 NABRE:**
**Chapter 12**
**The Resurrection**
**1** “At that time there shall arise Michael,

the great prince,

guardian of your people;

It shall be a time unsurpassed in distress

since the nation began until that time.

At that time your people shall escape,

everyone who is found written in the book.
**Jude 1:9:**
**2 Peter 2:12.**
**2 Peter 2:12. NABRE:**
**12** But these people, like irrational animals born by nature for capture and destruction, revile things that they do not understand, and in their destruction they will also be destroyed,
**Jude 1:11:**
**Genesis 4:8-Genesis 4:16,** **1 John 3:12,** **Numbers 31:15-Numbers 31:16,** **2 Peter 2:15,** **Revelation 2:14,** **And** **Numbers 16:19-Numbers 16:35.**
**Genesis 4:8-Genesis 4:16 NABRE:**
**8** Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out in the field.” When they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him. **9** Then the Lord asked Cain, Where is your brother Abel? He answered, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?” **10** God then said: What have you done? Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground! **11** Now you are banned from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. **12** If you till the ground, it shall no longer give you its produce. You shall become a constant wanderer on the earth. **13** Cain said to the Lord: “My punishment is too great to bear. **14** Look, you have now banished me from the ground. I must avoid you and be a constant wanderer on the earth. Anyone may kill me at sight.” **15** Not so! the Lord said to him. If anyone kills Cain, Cain shall be avenged seven times. So the Lord put a mark on Cain, so that no one would kill him at sight. **16** Cain then left the Lord’s presence and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

**1 John 3:12. NABRE:**
**12** unlike Cain who belonged to the evil one and slaughtered his brother. Why did he slaughter him? Because his own works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.

**Numbers 31:15-Numbers 31:16. NABRE:**
**15** “So you have spared all the women!” he exclaimed. **16** “These are the very ones who on Balaam’s advice were behind the Israelites’ unfaithfulness to the Lord in the affair at Peor, so that plague struck the Lord’s community.

**2 Peter 2:15. NABRE:**
**15** Abandoning the straight road, they have gone astray, following the road of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved payment for wrongdoing,

**Revelation 2:14. NABRE:**
**14** Yet I have a few things against you. You have some people there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who instructed Balak to put a stumbling block before the Israelites: to eat food sacrificed to idols and to play the harlot.

**Numbers 16:19-Numbers 16:35. NABRE:**
**19** Then, when Korah had assembled all the community against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting, the glory of the Lord appeared to the entire community, **20** and the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: **21** Stand apart from this community, that I may consume them at once. **22** But they fell prostrate and exclaimed, “O God, God of the spirits of all living creatures, if one man sins will you be angry with the whole community?” **23** The Lord answered Moses: **24** Speak to the community and tell them: Withdraw from the area around the tent of Korah, Dathan and Abiram.

**Punishment of Dathan and Abiram.**
**25** Moses, followed by the elders of Israel, arose and went to Dathan and Abiram. **26** Then he spoke to the community, “Move away from the tents of these wicked men and do not touch anything that is theirs: otherwise you too will be swept away because of all their sins.” **27** So they withdrew from the area around the tents of Korah, Dathan and Abiram. When Dathan and Abiram had come out and were standing at the entrance of their tents with their wives, their children, and their little ones, **28** Moses said, “This is how you shall know that the Lord sent me to do all I have done, and that it was not of my own devising: **29** if these die an ordinary death, merely suffering the fate common to all humanity, the Lord has not sent me. **30** But if the Lord makes a chasm, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them with all belonging to them, and they go down alive to Sheol, then you will know that these men have spurned the Lord.” **31** No sooner had he finished saying all this than the ground beneath them split open, **32** and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their families and all of Korah’s people with all their possessions. **33** They went down alive to Sheol with all belonging to them; the earth closed over them, and they disappeared from the assembly. **34** But all the Israelites near them fled at their shrieks, saying, “The earth might swallow us too!”

**Punishment of Korah.**
**35** And fire from the Lord came forth which consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the incense.
**Jude 1:12:**
**2 Peter 2:13,** **And** **2 Peter 2:17.**
**2 Peter 2:13. NABRE:**
**13** suffering wrong as payment for wrongdoing. Thinking daytime revelry a delight, they are stains and defilements as they revel in their deceits while carousing with you.

**2 Peter 2:17. NABRE:**
**17** These people are waterless springs and mists driven by a gale; for them the gloom of darkness has been reserved.
**Jude 1:14:**
**Matthew 16:27,** **And** **Hebrews 12:22-Hebrews 12:23.**
**Matthew 16:27. NABRE:**
**27** For the Son of Man will come with his angels in his Father’s glory, and then he will repay everyone according to his conduct.

**Hebrews 12:22-Hebrews 12:23. NABRE:**
**22** No, you have approached Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and countless angels in festal gathering, **23** and the assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven, and God the judge of all, and the spirits of the just made perfect,
**Jude 1:16:**
**Jude 1:18,** **1 Corinthians 10:10,** **2 Peter 2:10,** **And** **2 Peter 2:18.**
**Jude 1:18. NABRE:**
**18** for they told you, “In [the] last time there will be scoffers who will live according to their own godless desires.”

**1 Corinthians 10:10. NABRE:**
**10** Do not grumble as some of them did, and suffered death by the destroyer.

**2 Peter 2:10. NABRE:**
**10** and especially those who follow the flesh with its depraved desire and show contempt for lordship.

**False Teachers Denounced.**

Bold and arrogant, they are not afraid to revile glorious beings,

**2 Peter 2:18. NABRE:**
**18** For, talking empty bombast, they seduce with licentious desires of the flesh those who have barely escaped from people who live in error.
**Jude 1:17:**
**Hebrews 2:3,** **And** **2 Peter 3:2.**
**Hebrews 2:3. NABRE:**
**3** how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? Announced originally through the Lord, it was confirmed for us by those who had heard.

**2 Peter 3:2. NABRE:**
**2** to recall the words previously spoken by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and savior through your apostles.
**Jude 1:18:**
**1 Timothy 4:1,** **2 Timothy 3:1-2 Timothy 3:5,** **And** **2 Peter 3:3.**
**1 Timothy 4:1. NABRE:**
**Chapter 4**
**False Asceticism.**
**1** Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the last times some will turn away from the faith by paying attention to deceitful spirits and demonic instructions

**2 Timothy 3:1-2 Timothy 3:5. NABRE:**
**Chapter 3**
**The Dangers of the Last Days.**
**1** But understand this: there will be terrifying times in the last days. **2** People will be self-centered and lovers of money, proud, haughty, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreligious, **3** callous, implacable, slanderous, licentious, brutal, hating what is good, **4** traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, **5** as they make a pretense of religion but deny its power. Reject them.

**2 Peter 3:3. NABRE:**
**3** Know this first of all, that in the last days scoffers will come [to] scoff, living according to their own desires
**Jude 1:19:**
**1 Corinthians 2:14,** **And** **James 3:15.**
**1 Corinthians 2:14. NABRE:**
**14** Now the natural person does not accept what pertains to the Spirit of God, for to him it is foolishness, and he cannot understand it, because it is judged spiritually.

**James 3:15. NABRE:**
**15** Wisdom of this kind does not come down from above but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
**Jude 1:20:**
**Jude 1:2,** **Ephesians 6:18,** **And** **Colossians 2:7.**
**Jude 1:2. NABRE:**
**2** may mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance.

**Ephesians 6:18. NABRE:**
**Constant Prayer.**
**18** With all prayer and supplication, pray at every opportunity in the Spirit. To that end, be watchful with all perseverance and supplication for all the holy ones

**Colossians 2:7. NABRE:**
**7** rooted in him and built upon him and established in the faith as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
**Jude 1:21:**
**Titus 2:13.**
**Titus 2:13. NABRE:**
**13** as we await the blessed hope, the appearance of the glory of the great God and of our savior Jesus Christ,
**Jude 1:24:**
**2 Corinthians 4:14,** **And** **1 Peter 4:13.**
**2 Corinthians 4:14. NABRE:**
**14** knowing that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and place us with you in his presence.

**1 Peter 4:13. NABRE:**
**13** But rejoice to the extent that you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that when his glory is revealed you may also rejoice exultantly.
**Jude 1:25:**
**Romans 11:36,** **And** **1 Timothy 1:17.**
**Romans 11:36. NABRE:**
**36** For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.

**1 Timothy 1:17. NABRE:**
**17** To the king of ages, incorruptible, invisible, the only God, honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

**Responsibility of Timothy.**

## OTHER BOOKS OF THE NEW AMERICAN BIBLE - REVISED EDITION TRANSLATION

 **THE BOOKS OF THE CATHOLIC BIBLE IN THE NEW AMERICAN BIBLE - REVISED EDITION TRANSLATION**

### Old Testament

#### The Pentateuch:

1. The Book of Genesis
2. The Book of Exodus
3. The Book of Leviticus
4. The Book of Numbers
5. The Book of Deuteronomy

#### The Historical Books:

1. The Book of Joshua
2. The Book of Judges
3. The Book of Ruth
4. The First Book of Samuel
5. The Second Book of Samuel
6. The First Book of Kings
7. The Second Book of Kings
8. The First Book of Chronicles
9. The Second Book of Chronicles
10. The Book of Ezra
11. The Book of Nehemiah

#### The Biblical Novellas:

1. The Book of Tobit
2. The Book of Judith
3. The Book of Esther

#### The Maccabean Books:

1. The First Book of Maccabees
2. The Second Book of Maccabees

#### The Poetic Books:

1. The Book of Job
2. The Book of Psalms
3. The Book of Proverbs
4. The Book of Ecclesiastes
5. The Song of Songs
6. The Book of Wisdom
7. The Wisdom of Ben Sira

#### The Prophetic Books:

1. The Book of Isaiah
2. The Book of Jeremiah
3. The Book of Lamentations
4. The Book of Baruch
5. The Book of Ezekiel
6. The Book of Daniel
7. The Book of Hosea
8. The Book of Joel
9. The Book of Amos
10. The Book of Obadiah
11. The Book of Jonah
12. The Book of Micah
13. The Book of Nahum
14. The Book of Habakkuk
15. The Book of Zephaniah
16. The Book of Haggai
17. The Book of Zechariah
18. The Book of Malachi

### New Testament

#### The Four Gospels

1. The Gospel according to Matthew
2. The Gospel according to Mark
3. The Gospel according to Luke
4. The Gospel according to John

#### The Pauline Letters

1. The Letter to The Romans
2. The First Letter to The Corinthians
3. The Second Letter to The Corinthians
4. The Letter to The Galatians
5. The Letter to The Ephesians
6. The Letter to The Philippians
7. The Letter to The Colossians
8. The First Letter to The Thessalonians
9. The Second Letter to The Thessalonians
10. The First Letter to Timothy
11. The Second Letter to Timothy
12. The Letter to Titus
13. The Letter to Philemon

#### The General Letters/Catholic Letters

1. The Letter of James
2. The First Letter of Peter
3. The Second Letter of Peter
4. The First Letter of John
5. The Second Letter of John
6. The Third Letter of John
7. **The Letter of Jude**