1 Jude, servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to the called, who are sanctified in God the Father and preserved by Jesus Christ:
2 may mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.
3 Beloved, as I was putting all my energy into writing to you about the common salvation, I felt the need to write to you exhorting you to fight on for the faith delivered once for all to the saints.
4 For certain men have slipped in by stealth, who were long ago written down beforehand for this condemnation—ungodly men, changing the grace of our God into wantonness and denying the only Master, God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
5 But I wish to put you in remembrance, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved a people from the land of Egypt, the second time destroyed those who did not believe.
6 And angels who did not keep to their own position of rule, but abandoned their proper home, he has kept in everlasting bonds beneath gloom for the judgment of the great day—
7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns around them, which in like manner to these indulged in fornication and went after other flesh, lie before us as an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
8 Likewise these dreamers also stain the flesh, set aside lordship and speak abusively of glories.
9 Yet Michael the archangel, in his dispute with the devil as he argued over the body of Moses, did not dare to bring against him a railing judgment, but said, "May the Lord rebuke you."
10 But these men speak evil of whatever they are ignorant of, and in what they know by nature, as the brute beasts do, in these things they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, they have poured themselves out in Balaam's error for pay, and they have perished in Korah's revolt.
12 These are hidden reefs in your love feasts, banqueting with you fearlessly, pasturing themselves; clouds without water, carried this way and that by winds; trees of late autumn without fruit, twice dead, rooted out;
13 raging waves of the sea, frothing up their own shames; straying stars, for whom the blackness of darkness is kept in store for eternity.
14 And Enoch too, seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men, saying, "Behold, the Lord came among his holy myriads,
15 to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly among them concerning all their works of ungodliness which they ungodly committed, and concerning all the hard things that ungodly sinners spoke against him."
16 These are grumblers, faultfinders, going after their own cravings, and their mouths speak inflated things, admiring persons for the sake of gain.
17 But you, beloved, call to mind the words spoken in advance by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,
18 how they kept telling you that in the last time there would be mockers walking after their own desires for ungodly things.
19 These are the ones who set themselves apart, natural men, without the Spirit.
20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
21 keep yourselves in God's love, expecting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ for eternal life.
22 And have compassion on some, making a distinction;
23 but others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the tunic stained by the flesh.
24 To him who has power to keep you from falling, and to make you stand spotless before his glory with exultation,
25 to the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, might and authority, both now and for all the ages. Amen.