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Beloved, while I was makingeveryeffort to write you about our commonsalvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contendearnestly for the faith which was once for allhandeddown to the saints.
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For certainpersons have crept in unnoticed, those who were longbeforehandmarked out for thiscondemnation, ungodlypersons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our onlyMaster and Lord, JesusChrist.
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Now I desire to remind you, though you knowallthingsonce for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequentlydestroyedthose who did not believe.
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And angels who did not keep their owndomain, but abandoned their properabode, He has kept in eternalbondsunderdarkness for the judgment of the greatday,