GetPassageurn:cts:pbc:bible.parallel.eng.darby:65urn:cts:pbc:bible.parallel.eng.darby:65Jude , bondman of Jesus Christ , and brother of James , to the called ones beloved in God [ the ] Father and preserved in Jesus Christ : Mercy to you , and peace , and love be multiplied . Beloved , using all diligence to write to you of our common salvation , I have been obliged to write to you exhorting [ you ] to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints . For certain men have got in unnoticed , they who of old were marked out beforehand to this sentence , ungodly [ persons ] , turning the grace of our God into dissoluteness , and denying our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ . But I would put you in remembrance , you who once knew all things , that the Lord , having saved a people out of [ the ] land of Egypt , in the second place destroyed those who had not believed . And angels who had not kept their own original state , but had abandoned their own dwelling , he keeps in eternal chains under gloomy darkness , to [ the ] judgment of [ the ] great day ; as Sodom and Gomorrha , and the cities around them , committing greedily fornication , in like manner with them , and going after other flesh , lie there as an example , undergoing the judgment of eternal fire . Yet in like manner these dreamers also defile [ the ] flesh , and despise lordship , and speak railingly against dignities . But Michael the archangel , when disputing with the devil he reasoned about the body of Moses , did not dare to bring a railing judgment against [ him ] , but said , [ The ] Lord rebuke thee . But these , whatever things they know not , they speak railingly against ; but what even , as the irrational animals , they understand by mere nature , in these things they corrupt themselves . Woe to them ! because they have gone in the way of Cain , and given themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward , and perished in the gainsaying of Core . These are spots in your love-feasts , feasting together [ with you ] without fear , pasturing themselves ; clouds without water , carried along by [ the ] winds ; autumnal trees , without fruit , twice dead , rooted up ; raging waves of the sea , foaming out their own shames ; wandering stars , to whom has been reserved the gloom of darkness for eternity . And Enoch , [ the ] seventh from Adam , prophesied also as to these , saying , Behold , [ the ] Lord has come amidst his holy myriads , to execute judgment against all ; and to convict all the ungodly of them of all their works of ungodliness , which they have wrought ungodlily , and of all the hard [ things ] which ungodly sinners have spoken against him . These are murmurers , complainers , walking after their lusts ; and their mouth speaks swelling words , admiring persons for the sake of profit . But * ye * , beloved , remember the words spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ , that they said to you , that at [ the ] end of the time there should be mockers , walking after their own lusts of ungodlinesses . These are they who set [ themselves ] apart , natural [ men ] , not having [ the ] Spirit . But * ye * , beloved , building yourselves up on your most holy faith , praying in the Holy Spirit , keep yourselves in the love of God , awaiting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life . And of some have compassion , making a difference , but others save with fear , snatching [ them ] out of the fire ; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh . But to him that is able to keep you without stumbling , and to set [ you ] with exultation blameless before his glory , to the only God our Saviour , through Jesus Christ our Lord , [ be ] glory , majesty , might , and authority , from before the whole age , and now , and to all the ages . Amen .