Jude 1:1-8

The Warnings of History to the Ungodly

1 [a]1Jude, a 2bond-servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of [b]James, To 3those who are the called, beloved in God the Father, and 4kept for Jesus Christ:
2 5May mercy and peace and love 6be multiplied to you.
3 7Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our 8common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you 9contend earnestly for 10the faith which was once for all 11handed down to 12the [c]saints.
4 For certain persons have 13crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand [d]14marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn 15the grace of our God into 16licentiousness and 17deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
5 Now I desire to 18remind you, though 19you know all things once for all, that [e]the Lord, 20after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, [f]subsequently destroyed those who did not believe.
6 And 21angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has 22kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day,
7 just as 23Sodom and Gomorrah and the 24cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and 25went after [g]strange flesh, are exhibited as an [h]26example in undergoing the 27punishment of eternal fire.
8 Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming, 28defile the flesh, and reject authority, and revile [i]angelic majesties.

Cross References 28

  • 1. Matthew 13:55; Mark 6:3; [Luke 6:16; John 14:22; Acts 1:13]
  • 2. Romans 1:1
  • 3. Romans 1:6
  • 4. John 17:11; 1 Peter 1:5; Jude 21
  • 5. Galatians 6:16; 1 Timothy 1:2
  • 6. 1 Peter 1:2; 2 Peter 1:2
  • 7. Hebrews 6:9; Jude 1, 17, 20
  • 8. Titus 1:4
  • 9. 1 Timothy 6:12
  • 10. Acts 6:7; Jude 20
  • 11. 2 Peter 2:21
  • 12. Acts 9:13
  • 13. Galatians 2:4; 2 Timothy 3:6
  • 14. 1 Peter 2:8
  • 15. Acts 11:23
  • 16. 2 Peter 2:7
  • 17. 2 Timothy 2:12; Titus 1:16; 2 Peter 2:1; 1 John 2:22
  • 18. 2 Peter 1:12; 2 Peter 3:1
  • 19. 1 John 2:20
  • 20. Exodus 12:51; 1 Corinthians 10:5-10; Hebrews 3:16
  • 21. 2 Peter 2:4
  • 22. 2 Peter 2:9
  • 23. Genesis 19:24; 2 Peter 2:6
  • 24. Deuteronomy 29:23; Hosea 11:8
  • 25. 2 Peter 2:2
  • 26. 2 Peter 2:6
  • 27. Matthew 25:41; 2 Thessalonians 1:8; 2 Peter 3:7
  • 28. 2 Peter 2:10

Footnotes 9

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