to execute judgment on<n id="1" /> all, and to convict every person<n id="2" /> of all their thoroughly ungodly deeds<n id="3" /> that they have committed,<n id="4" /> and of all the harsh words that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.&#8221;<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">Now Enoch, the seventh in descent beginning with Adam,<n id="1" /> even prophesied of them,<n id="2" /> saying, &#8220;Look! The Lord is coming<n id="3" /> with thousands and thousands<n id="4" /> of his holy ones,

But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith, by praying in the Holy Spirit,<n id="1" />

You also know that<n id="1" /> the angels who did not keep within their proper domain<n id="2" /> but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept<n id="3" /> in eternal chains<n id="4" /> in utter<n id="5" /> darkness, locked up<n id="6" /> for the judgment of the great Day.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Dear friends, although I have been eager to write to you<n id="1" /> about our common salvation, I now feel compelled<n id="2" /> instead to write to encourage<n id="3" /> you to contend earnestly<n id="4" /> for the faith<n id="5" /> that was once for all<n id="6" /> entrusted to the saints.<n id="7" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now to the one who is able to keep you from falling,<n id="1" /> and to cause you to stand, rejoicing,<n id="2" /> without blemish<n id="3" /> before his glorious presence,<n id="4" />

So also<n id="1" /> Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns,<n id="2" /> since they indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire<n id="3" /> in a way similar to<n id="4" /> these angels,<n id="5" /> are now displayed as an example by suffering the punishment of eternal fire.p>

These men are<n id="1" /> dangerous reefs<n id="2" /> at your love feasts,<n id="3" /> feasting without reverence,<n id="4" /> feeding only themselves.<n id="5" /> They are<n id="6" /> waterless<n id="7" /> clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit<n id="8" /> &#8211; twice dead,<n id="9" /> uprooted;

to the only God our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority, before all time, and now, and for all eternity. Amen.p>

<p class="bodytext">Now I desire to remind you (even though you have been fully informed of these facts<n id="1" /> once for all<n id="2" />) that Jesus,<n id="3" /> having saved the<n id="4" /> people out of the land of Egypt, later<n id="5" /> destroyed those who did not believe.

These people are grumblers and<n id="1" /> fault-finders who go<n id="2" /> wherever their desires lead them,<n id="3" /> and they give bombastic speeches,<n id="4" /> enchanting folks<n id="5" /> for their own gain.<n id="6" />p>

These people are divisive,<n id="1" /> worldly,<n id="2" /> devoid of the Spirit.<n id="3" />

For certain men<n id="1" /> have secretly slipped in among you<n id="2" /> &#8211; men who long ago<n id="3" /> were marked out<n id="4" /> for the condemnation I am about to describe<n id="5" /> &#8211; ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil<n id="6" /> and who deny our only Master<n id="7" /> and Lord,<n id="8" /> Jesus Christ.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">From Jude,<n id="1" /> a slave<n id="2" /> of Jesus Christ and brother of James,<n id="3" /> to those who are called, wrapped in the love of<n id="4" /> God the Father and kept for<n id="5" /> Jesus Christ.

<t /><p class="bodytext">But you, dear friends &#8211; recall the predictions<n id="1" /> foretold by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.<n id="2" />

For they said to you, &#8220;In the end time there will come<n id="1" /> scoffers, propelled by their own ungodly desires.&#8221;<n id="2" />

maintain<n id="1" /> yourselves in the love of God, while anticipating<n id="2" /> the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that brings eternal life.<n id="3" />

But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.<n id="1" />

wild sea waves,<n id="1" /> spewing out the foam of<n id="2" /> their shame;<n id="3" /> wayward stars<n id="4" /> for whom the utter depths of eternal darkness<n id="5" /> have been reserved.p>

But even<n id="1" /> when Michael the archangel<n id="2" /> was arguing with the devil and debating with him<n id="3" /> concerning Moses&#8217; body, he did not dare to bring a slanderous judgment, but said, &#8220;May the Lord rebuke you!&#8221;