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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.
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But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and arguedabout the body of Moses, did not darepronounceagainst him a railingjudgment, but said, "The Lordrebuke you!"
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But thesemenrevile the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, likeunreasoninganimals, by thesethings they are destroyed.
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Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and for pay they have rushedheadlong into the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.
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These are the men who are hiddenreefs in your lovefeasts when they feast with you withoutfear, caring for themselves; cloudswithoutwater, carriedalong by winds; autumntreeswithoutfruit, doublydead, uprooted;
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It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lordcame with manythousands of His holyones,
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to executejudgment upon all, and to convictall the ungodly of all their ungodlydeedswhich they have done in an ungodlyway, and of all the harshthingswhichungodlysinners have spokenagainst Him."