1[a]1Jude, a 2bond-servant of JesusChrist, and brother of [b]James, To 3those who are the called, beloved in God the Father, and 4kept for JesusChrist:
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5May mercy and peace and love6be multiplied to you.
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7Beloved, while I was makingeveryeffort to write you about our 8commonsalvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you 9contendearnestly for 10the faith which was once for all11handeddown to 12the [c]saints.
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For certainpersons have 13crept in unnoticed, those who were longbeforehand[d]14marked out for thiscondemnation, ungodlypersons who turn15the grace of our God into 16licentiousness and 17deny our onlyMaster and Lord, JesusChrist.
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Now I desire to 18remind you, though 19you knowallthingsonce for all, that [e]the Lord, 20after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, [f]subsequentlydestroyedthose who did not believe.
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And 21angels who did not keep their owndomain, but abandoned their properabode, He has 22kept in eternalbondsunderdarkness for the judgment of the greatday,
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just as 23Sodom and Gomorrah and the 24citiesaround them, since they in the sameway as theseindulged in grossimmorality and 25wentafter[g]strangeflesh, are exhibited as an [h]26example in undergoing the 27punishment of eternalfire.
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Yet in the samewaythesemen, also by dreaming, 28defile the flesh, and rejectauthority, and revile[i]angelic majesties.