犹大书
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
问安
1 耶稣基督的仆人，雅各的兄弟犹大，写信给那些被召的人，就是在父 神里蒙爱，并且为了耶稣基督而蒙保守的人。 2 愿怜悯、平安、慈爱多多加给你们。
要竭力维护信仰
3 亲爱的，尽管我曾经迫切地想写信给你们，论到我们共享的救恩；现在我更觉得必须写信劝勉你们，要竭力维护从前一次就全交给了圣徒的信仰， 4 因为有人已经混进你们中间，他们就是早被判定受刑的不敬虔的人。这些人把我们 神的恩典当作放纵情欲的借口，并且否认独一的主宰我们的主耶稣基督。
列举史实作鉴戒
5 虽然这一切事情你们都早已知道，我仍然要提醒你们：从前主从埃及地把人民救出来，跟着就把那些不信的人除灭了。 6 还有，那不守本位擅离自己居所的天使，主就用永远的锁炼把他们拘留在黑暗里，直到那大日子的审判。 7 又像所多玛、蛾摩拉和周围城市的人，与他们一样的淫乱，随从逆性的情欲，以致遭受永火的刑罚，成了后世的鉴戒。
8 虽然是这样，这些醉生梦死的人还是照样玷污身体，藐视主权，毁谤尊荣。 9 就是天使长米迦勒为了摩西的尸体与魔鬼争论的时候，尚且不敢用毁谤的话定他的罪，只说：“主责备你！” 10 但这些人毁谤他们所不知道的，他们只知道按本性所能领悟的事，好象没有理性的禽兽，就在这些事上败坏了自己。 11 他们有祸了，因为他们走上了该隐的道路，又为了财利闯进巴兰的歧途，并且在可拉的背叛中灭亡了。 12 这些人胆敢与你们同席，他们只顾喂饱（“喂饱”或译：“牧养”）自己，是你们爱筵中的暗礁；是无雨的浮云，随风飘荡；是秋天不结果子的树，连根拔起，死而又死； 13 是海中的狂浪，溅起了自己可耻的泡沫；是流荡的星，有漆黑的幽暗永远为他们存留。
14 亚当的第七世孙以诺，也曾经预言这些人说：“看，主必同他的千万圣者降临， 15 要审判众人，又要定所有不敬虔的人的罪，因为他们妄行各样不敬虔的事，并且说了种种刚愎的话顶撞 神。” 16 这些人常发牢骚，怨天尤人，顺着自己的私欲行事，口说夸张的话，为了利益就不惜阿谀奉承。
要在至圣的信仰上建立自己
17 但你们呢，亲爱的，你们要记住我们主耶稣基督的使徒从前所说的话。 18 他们曾经对你们说：“末世必有好讥笑人的人，随着自己不敬虔的私欲行事。” 19 这些人分党结派，是属血气的，没有圣灵。 20 但你们呢，亲爱的，你们要在至圣的信仰上建立自己，在圣灵里祷告， 21 要保守自己在 神的爱中，仰望我们主耶稣基督的怜悯，直到永生。 22 有些人心里疑惑，你们要怜悯他们； 23 有些人你们要拯救，把他们从火中抢救出来；又有些人你们要战战兢兢地怜悯他们，连染上情欲污渍的衣服也应当憎恶。
颂赞的祷告
24-25 愿荣耀、威严、能力、权柄，借着我们的主耶稣基督，从万世以前，及现在，直到永永远远，归给独一的 神我们的救主。他能保守你们不至跌倒，使你们毫无瑕疵、欢然站在他荣光之前。阿们。
Jude
Easy-to-Read Version
1 Greetings from Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James.
To those who have been chosen and are loved by God the Father and have been kept safe in Jesus Christ.
2 Mercy, peace, and love be yours more and more.
God Will Punish Those Who Do Wrong
3 Dear friends, I wanted very much to write to you about the salvation we all share together. But I felt the need to write to you about something else: I want to encourage you to fight hard for the faith that God gave his holy people. God gave this faith once, and it is good for all time. 4 Some people have secretly entered your group. These people have already been judged guilty for what they are doing. Long ago the prophets wrote about them. They are against God. They have used the grace of our God in the wrong way—to do sinful things. They refuse to follow Jesus Christ, our only Master and Lord.
5 I want to help you remember some things you already know: Remember that the Lord[a] saved his people by bringing them out of the land of Egypt. But later he destroyed all those who did not believe. 6 And remember the angels who lost their authority to rule. They left their proper home. So the Lord has kept them in darkness, bound with everlasting chains, to be judged on the great day. 7 Also, remember the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and the other towns around them. Like those angels they were full of sexual sin and involved themselves in sexual relations that are wrong. And they suffer the punishment of eternal fire, an example for us to see.
8 It is the same way with these people who have entered your group. They are guided by dreams. They make themselves dirty with sin. They reject God’s authority and say bad things against the glorious ones.[b] 9 Not even the archangel Michael did this. Michael argued with the devil about who would have the body of Moses. But Michael did not dare to condemn even the devil for his false accusations. Instead, Michael said, “The Lord punish you!”
10 But these people criticize things they don’t understand. They do understand some things. But they understand these things not by thinking, but by feeling, the way dumb animals understand things. And these are the things that destroy them. 11 It will be bad for them. They have followed the way that Cain went. To make money, they have given themselves to following the wrong way that Balaam went. They have fought against God like Korah[c] did. And like Korah, they will be destroyed.
12 These people are like dirty spots among you—they bring shame to you in the special meals you share together. They eat with you and have no fear. They take care of only themselves. They are like clouds without rain. The wind blows them around. They are like trees that have no fruit at harvest time and are pulled out of the ground. So they are twice dead. 13 Like the dirty foam on the wild waves in the sea, everyone can see the shameful things they do. They are like stars that wander in the sky. A place in the blackest darkness has been kept for them forever.
14 Enoch, the seventh descendant from Adam, said this about these people: “Look, the Lord is coming with thousands and thousands of his holy angels 15 to judge everyone. He will punish all those who are against him for all the evil they have done in their lack of respect for him. Yes, the Lord will punish all these sinners who don’t honor him. He will punish them for all the evil things they have said against him.”
16 These people always complain and find wrong in others. They always do the evil things they want to do. They boast about themselves. The only reason they say good things about others is to get what they want.
A Warning and Things to Do
17 Dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ said would happen. 18 They told you, “In the last times there will be people who laugh at God and do only what they want to do—things that are against God.” 19 These are the people who divide you. They are not spiritual, because they don’t have the Spirit.
20 But you, dear friends, use your most holy faith to build yourselves up even stronger. Pray with the help of the Holy Spirit. 21 Keep yourselves safe in God’s love, as you wait for the Lord Jesus Christ in his mercy to give you eternal life.
22 Help those who have doubts. 23 Rescue those who are living in danger of hell’s fire. There are others you should treat with mercy, but be very careful that their filthy lives don’t rub off on you.[d]
Praise God
24 God is strong and can keep you from falling. He can bring you before his glory without any wrong in you and give you great joy. 25 He is the only God, the one who saves us. To him be glory, greatness, power, and authority through Jesus Christ our Lord for all time past, now, and forever. Amen.
Footnotes
- Jude 1:5 the Lord Some of the oldest and best Greek manuscripts of Jude have “Jesus” here. If “Jesus” is accepted as the original reading, it should replace “the Lord” in verse 6 as well.
- Jude 1:8 the glorious ones Literally, “the glories.” These seem to be some kind of angelic beings.
- Jude 1:11 Korah He turned against Moses. See Num. 16:1-40.
- Jude 1:23 that … on you Literally, “hating even their undershirt that is defiled from the flesh.”
Jude
King James Version
1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
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