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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,
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just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the citiesaround them, since they in the sameway as theseindulged in grossimmorality and wentafterstrangeflesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternalfire.