The
General Epistle of
Jude
1 He exhorts them to be constant in the profession of the faith, 4 false teachers crept in to seduce them, for whose evil doctrine a horrible punishment is prepared, 20 whereas the godly may persevere, grow in grace and keep the faith
Luk 6:16;Act 1:13;Joh 17:1 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 Cor 5:18-21;Joh 4:42;Joh 1:29 2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
Tit 1:4;Heb 6:5;Phi 2:7 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.
1 Joh 2:22;2 Pet 2:1;Heb 12:15 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.
Heb 3:17,19;Num 14:29;Tit 2:11 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.
Mat 8:29;2 Pet 2:4;Rev 20:10 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.
Deu 29:23;2 Pet 2:6;2 Joh 1:5 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.
Exo 22:28;Joh 8:12;Joh 1:9 8 ¶ Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
Dan 10:13;Rev 12:7;Deu 34:6 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.
2 Pet 1:10;Hos 2:23;Gen 24:65 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.
Num 16:1;Num 22:7;1 Joh 3:12 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.
1 Cor 11:21;Eph 4:14;Act 4:12 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;
Isa 57:20;1 Joh 1:1;Heb 13:17 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Gen 5:18;Dan 7:10;Heb 11:5 14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
Gal 1:10;Mat 6:24;Rev 21:8 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.
Pro 28:21;Ecc 5:11;Rom 5:8 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.
Psa 125:1;Pro 10:25;Luk 3:11 17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Heb 1:2;2 The 2:3;Mat 24:5 18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
Gal 4:6;Rom 8:26;Mat 10:20 20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
Job 22:26;Heb 10:22;Jud 1:12 21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Rom 11:14;Amo 4:11;Zec 3:4-5 23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Eph 3:20;Col 1:22;1 Joh 1:3 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,
1 Tim 1:17;Joh 17:3;Psa 119:176 25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.