Jude 1

1Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:Cross-references: Matt 10:3 · Mark 3:18 · Luke 6:16 · John 6:39 · John 10:28 · John 12:26 · +29 more

2May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.Cross-references: Rom 1:7 · 1Pet 1:2 · 2Pet 1:2 · Rev 1:4

3Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.Cross-references: Deut 9:10 · Deut 21:9 · Neh 13:25 · Isa 45:17 · Isa 45:22 · Jer 9:3 · +33 moreExamined: Mormonism →

4For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.Cross-references: 2Sam 22:5 · Ps 1:1 · Ps 62:2 · Matt 13:25 · John 17:3 · Acts 11:23 · +22 more

5Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.Cross-references: Num 14:22 · Num 26:64 · Deut 2:15 · Ps 106:26 · Rom 15:15 · 1Cor 10:1 · +3 more

6Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.Cross-references: Matt 8:29 · Matt 25:41 · John 8:44 · Eph 6:12 · Heb 10:27 · 2Pet 2:4 · +2 more

7Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.Cross-references: Gen 13:13 · Gen 18:20 · Gen 19:5 · Gen 19:24 · Deut 29:23 · Isa 1:9 · +16 more

8Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.Cross-references: Gen 3:5 · Ex 22:28 · Num 16:3 · Num 16:12 · Ps 2:1 · Ps 12:3 · +15 more

9But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”Cross-references: Ex 22:28 · Deut 34:6 · 1Chr 12:17 · Isa 36:13 · Isa 37:3 · Isa 37:10 · +10 moreExamined: Jehovah's Witnesses →

10But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.Cross-references: Rom 1:21 · 2Pet 2:12

11Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.Cross-references: Gen 4:3 · Num 16:1 · Num 22:1 · Num 26:9 · Num 31:16 · Deut 23:4 · +14 more

12These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;Cross-references: 2Chr 7:20 · Ps 1:3 · Ps 37:2 · Ps 78:29 · Prov 25:14 · Isa 56:10 · +26 more

13wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.Cross-references: Ps 65:7 · Ps 93:3 · Isa 57:20 · Jer 5:22 · Phil 3:19 · 2Tim 3:13 · +5 more

14About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,Cross-references: Gen 5:18 · Gen 5:21 · Deut 33:2 · 1Chr 1:1 · Job 19:25 · Ps 50:3 · +9 more

15to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”Cross-references: Ex 16:8 · 1Sam 2:3 · Ps 9:7 · Ps 31:18 · Ps 37:6 · Ps 50:1 · +27 more

16These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.Cross-references: Lev 19:15 · Num 14:36 · Num 16:11 · Deut 1:27 · Job 17:4 · Job 32:21 · +30 more

17But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.Cross-references: Mal 4:4 · Acts 20:35 · Eph 2:20 · Eph 4:11 · 2Pet 3:2 · 1John 4:6

18They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”Cross-references: Ps 14:1 · Acts 20:29 · 1Tim 4:1 · 2Tim 3:1 · 2Tim 3:13 · 2Tim 4:3 · +3 more

19These are those who cause divisions and are sensual, not having the Spirit.Cross-references: Prov 18:1 · Isa 65:5 · Ezek 14:7 · Hos 4:14 · Hos 9:10 · John 3:5 · +5 more

20But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.Cross-references: Zech 12:10 · Acts 9:31 · Acts 15:9 · Acts 26:18 · Rom 8:15 · Rom 8:26 · +21 more

21Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.Cross-references: Job 14:14 · Lam 3:25 · Matt 24:42 · Luke 12:36 · John 1:17 · John 14:21 · +22 more

22On some have compassion, making a distinction,Cross-references: Ezek 34:17 · Gal 4:20 · Gal 6:1 · Heb 6:4 · James 5:19 · 1John 5:16 · +1 more

23and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.Cross-references: Lev 13:47 · Lev 14:47 · Lev 15:17 · Isa 64:6 · Lam 4:14 · Amos 4:11 · +11 more

24Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,Cross-references: Ps 21:6 · Ps 43:4 · Matt 5:12 · Matt 16:27 · Matt 19:28 · Matt 25:31 · +19 more

25to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.Cross-references: 1Chr 29:11 · Ps 72:18 · Ps 78:20 · Ps 104:24 · Ps 147:5 · Isa 12:2 · +25 more