The Book of Jude (KJV) warning against
false teachers.
1 Jude, 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: 2
Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
3 Beloved, 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.
4 For 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. 5 I 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. 6 And 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. 7 Even 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.
8 Likewise also these [filthy]
dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of
dignities. 9 Yet 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. 10 But these speak
evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally,
as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe 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.
12 These 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; 13 Raging waves of the
sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved
the blackness of darkness for ever. 14
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these,
saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To 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.
16 These are murmurers,
complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh
great swelling [words], having men's persons in admiration because of
advantage. 17 But, beloved,
remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our
Lord Jesus Christ; 18 How that
they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk
after their own ungodly lusts. 19
These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not
the Spirit. 20 But ye, beloved,
building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy
Ghost, 21 Keep yourselves in the love of
God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22 And of some have compassion,
making a difference: 23 And others save
with fear, pulling [them] out of the fire; hating even the garment
spotted by the flesh. 24 Now unto him
that is able to keep you from falling, and to present [you] faultless
before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
25 To the only wise God our
Saviour, [be] glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever.
Amen.
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