Book 65 Jude
001:001 Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James:
To those who are in God the Father, enfolded in His love,
and kept for Jesus Christ, and called.
001:002 May mercy, peace and love be abundantly granted to you.
001:003 Dear friends, since I am eager to begin a letter to you on
the subject of our common salvation, I find myself constrained
to write and cheer you on to the vigorous defense of the faith
delivered once for all to God's people.
001:004 For certain persons have crept in unnoticed--men spoken of in ancient
writings as pre-destined to this condemnation--ungodly men,
who pervert the grace of our God into an excuse for immorality,
and disown Jesus Christ, our only Sovereign and Lord.
001:005 I desire to remind you--although the whole matter is already
familiar to you--that the Lord saved a people out of the land
of Egypt, but afterwards destroyed those who had no faith.
001:006 And angels--those who did not keep the position originally
assigned to them, but deserted their own proper abode--
He reserves in everlasting bonds, in darkness, in preparation
for the judgement of the great day.
001:007 So also Sodom and Gomorrah--and the neighboring towns
in the same manner--having been guilty of gross fornication
and having gone astray in pursuit of unnatural vice,
are now before us as a specimen of the fire of the Ages
in the punishment which they are undergoing.
001:008 Yet in just the same way these dreamers also pollute the body,
while they set authority at naught and speak evil of dignities.
001:009 But Michael the Archangel, when contending with the Devil
and arguing with him about the body of Moses, did not dare
to pronounce judgement on him in abusive terms, but simply said,