Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ, and a brother of James. To those who are in God, the Father beloved, kept for Jesus Christ, and called.

I wish to remind you of what you already know right well, that although the Lord once saved a people out of the land of Egypt, he afterward destroyed those who did not believe;

while the angels who did not keep their first domain but left their proper abode, are held by him in blank darkness, in everlasting chains, in preparation for the judgment of the Great Day.

Yet these men blaspheme about matters of which they know nothing, while they use such things as they do understand by instinct (like the animals who have no reason) for their own destruction.

These are they who are stains upon your love-feasts; when they feast sumptuously without scruple, looking after none but themselves. They are clouds without water, driven along by the winds; trees of autumn, fruitless, doubly dead, torn up by the roots,

wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

how they used to say to you, "In the last times there will be scoffers who will be led only by their godless passions."

These are the men, sensual and unspiritual, who cause divisions.

Pity some who are wavering, and save by dragging them out of the fire;

Now unto Him who has power to guard you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of his glory, faultless and exultant,