Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ, and a brother of James, to those who have been called, who are beloved by God the Father and have been kept through union with Jesus Christ:

For certain persons have sneaked in -- their doom was written down long ago -- godless persons, who turn the favor of our God into an excuse for licentiousness, and disown our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Now I want to remind you, though you know it all already, that although the Lord had saved a people out of the land of Egypt, He afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

And angels, who did not preserve their original rank but left their proper home, He has kept in everlasting chains under darkness, for the day of judgment,

because they said to you, "In the last times there will be mockers who will live to satisfy their own godless passions."

These are men who cause divisions; mere animals, destitute of any spiritual nature,

Some people, who continue to waver through doubts, you must pity

Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to make you stand in His glorious presence faultless and full of triumphant joy,