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JUDE
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Ivde a seruaunt of Iesus Christ, and brother of Iames, to them which are called
and sanctified of God the Father, and returned to Iesus Christ:
2 Mercie vnto you, and peace and loue be multiplied.
3 Beloued, when I gaue al diligece to write vnto you of the common saluatio, it
was needful for me to write vnto you to exhort you, that yee should earnestly
contend for the maintenace of ye faith, which was once giuen vnto the Saintes.
4 For there are certaine men crept in, which were before of olde ordeined to
this condemnation: vngodly men they are which turne the grace of our God into
wantonnesse, and denie God the onely Lord, and our Lord Iesus Christ.
5 I wil therfore put you in remebrance, forasmuch as ye once knew this, how that
the Lord, after that he had deliuered the people out of
Egypt
, destroied them afterward which beleeued not.
6 The Angels also which kept not their first estate, but left their owne
habitation, hee hath reserued in euerlasting chaines vnder darkenesse vnto the
iudgement of the great day.
7 As
Sodom
and Gomorrhe, and the cities about them, which in like maner as they did,
committed fornication, and followed strange flesh, are set foorth for an
ensample, and suffer the vengeance of eternall fire.
8 Likewise notwithstanding these sleepers also defile the flesh, and despise
gouernment, and speake euill of them that are in authoritie.
9 Yet Michael the Archangell, when hee stroue against the deuill, and disputed
about the body of Moses, durst not blame him with cursed speaking, but sayd, The
Lord rebuke thee.
10 But these speake euill of those thinges, which they know not: &
whatsoeuer things they know naturally, as beasts, which are without reason, in
those things they corrupt them selues.
11 Wo be vnto them: for they haue followed the way of Cain, and are cast away by
the deceit of Balaams wages, and perish in the gainsaying of Core.
12 These are rockes in your feasts of charitie when they feast with you, without
al feare, feeding themselues: cloudes they are wtout water, caried about of
windes, corrupt trees & without fruit, twise dead, and plucked vp by ye
rootes.
13 They are the raging waues of the sea, foming out their owne shame: they are
wandring starres, to whome is reserued the blackenesse of darkenesse for euer.
14 And Enoch also the seuenth from Adam, prophecied of such, saying, Beholde,
the Lorde commeth with thousands of his Saints,
15 To giue iudgement against al men, and to rebuke all the vngodly among them of
all their wicked deeds, which they haue vngodly committed, and of all their
cruel speakings, which wicked sinners haue spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their owne lustes: Whose
mouthes speake proud things, hauing mens persons in admiration, because of
aduantage.
17 But, yee beloued, remember the wordes which were spoken before of the
Apostles of our Lord Iesus Christ,
18 How that they told you that there should be mockers in ye last time, which
should walke after their owne vngodly lustes.
19 These are they that separate them selues from other, naturall, hauing not the
Spirit.
20 But, yee beloued, edifie your selues in your most holy faith, praying in the
holy Ghost,
21 And keepe your selues in the loue of God, looking for the mercie of our Lorde
Iesus Christ, vnto eternall life.
22 And haue compassion of some, in putting difference:
23 And other saue with feare, pulling them out of the fire, & hate euen that
garment which is spotted by the flesh.
24 Nowe vnto him that is able to keepe you, that ye fall not, and to present you
faultlesse before the presence of his glorie with ioy,
25 That is, to God only wise, our Sauiour, be glorie, and maiestie, and
dominion, and power, both nowe and for euer, Amen.
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