Jude 1 - Amplified Bible(AMP)

The Warnings of History to the Ungodly

1Jude, a bond-servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James,,

To those who are the called (God’s chosen ones, the elect), dearly loved by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

2May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.

3Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I was compelled to write to you appealing that you fight strenuously for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints.

4For certain people have crept in unnoticed. They are ungodly persons whose condemnation was predicted long ago, for they distort the grace of our God into decadence and immoral freedom, and deny and disown our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

5Now I want to remind you, although you are fully informed once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe.

6And angels who did not keep their own designated place of power, but abandoned their proper dwelling place, He has kept in eternal chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day,

7just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the adjacent cities, since they in the same way as these angels indulged in gross immoral freedom and unnatural vice and sensual perversity. They are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of everlasting fire.

8Nevertheless in the same way, these dreamers also defile the body, and reject authority, and revile and mock angelic majesties.

9But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil (Satan), and arguing about the body of Moses, did not dare bring an abusive condemnation against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”

10But these men sneer at anything which they do not understand; and whatever they do know by instinct, like unreasoning and irrational beasts—by these things they are destroyed.

11Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and for profit they have run headlong into the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

12These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast together with you without fear, looking after themselves; clouds without water, swept along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted and lifeless;

13wild waves of the sea, flinging up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of deep darkness has been reserved forever.

14It was about these people that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, when he said, “Look, the Lord came with myriads of His holy ones

15to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly deeds they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh and cruel things ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”

16These people are murmurers, griping and complaining, following after their own desires; they speak arrogantly, flattering people to gain an advantage.

Keep Yourselves in the Love of God

17But as for you, beloved, remember the words spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

18They used to say to you, “In the last days there will be scoffers, following after their own ungodly passions.”

19These are the ones who are causing divisions—worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit.

20But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith, pray in the Holy Spirit,

21and keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously and looking forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

22And have mercy on some, who are doubting;

23save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy but with fear, loathing even the clothing spotted and polluted by their shameless immoral freedom.

24Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling or falling into sin, and to present you unblemished in the presence of His glory with triumphant joy and unspeakable delight,

25to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and power, before all time and now and forever. Amen.