The Warnings of History to the Ungodly

^1 [a](A)Jude, a ^(B)bond-servant of Jesus Christ and brother of ^[b]James,

To ^(C)those who are the called, beloved in God the Father, and ^(D)kept for Jesus Christ: ^2 (E)May mercy, peace, and love ^(F)be multiplied to you.

⁵⁶ And ^(A)His sisters, are they not all with us? Where then did this man acquire all these things?”

²¹ And when ^(A)His own ^[a]people heard about this, they came out to take custody of Him; for they were saying, “^(B)He has lost His senses.”

¹⁴ All these ^(A)were continually devoting themselves with one ^[a]mind to prayer, along with ^(B)the women, and Mary the ^(C)mother of Jesus, and with His ^(D)brothers.

^3 (A)Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our ^(B)common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you ^(C)contend earnestly for ^(D)the faith that was once for all time ^(E)handed down to ^(F)the ^[a]saints. ⁴ For certain people have ^(G)crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand ^[b](H)marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn ^(I)the grace of our God into ^(J)indecent behavior and ^(K)deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Believers Are Dead to Sin, Alive to God

6 ^(A)What shall we say then? Are we to ^(B)continue in sin so that grace may increase? ^2 [a](C)Far from it! How shall we who ^(D)died to sin still live in it?

⁵ Now I want to ^(A)remind you, though ^(B)you know everything once and for all, that ^[a]the Lord, ^(C)after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, ^[b]subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. ⁶ And ^(D)angels who did not keep their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling place, these He has ^(E)kept in eternal restraints under darkness for the judgment of the great day, ⁷ just as ^(F)Sodom and Gomorrah and the ^(G)cities around them, since they in the same way as these angels indulged in sexual perversion and ^(H)went after ^[c]strange flesh, are exhibited as an ^[d](I)example in undergoing the ^(J)punishment of eternal fire.

⁸ Yet in the same way these people also, dreaming, ^(K)defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak abusively of angelic ^[e]majesties. ⁹ But ^(L)Michael ^(M)the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about ^(N)the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him an abusive judgment, but said, “^(O)The Lord rebuke you!” ¹⁰ But ^(P)these people disparage all the things that they do not understand; and ^(Q)all the things that they know by instinct, ^(R)like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed. ¹¹ Woe to them! For they have gone ^(S)the way of Cain, and for pay ^[f]they have given themselves up to ^(T)the error of Balaam, and ^(U)perished in the rebellion of Korah. ¹² These are the ones who are ^[g]hidden reefs ^(V)in your love feasts when they feast with you ^(W)without fear, like shepherds caring only for themselves; ^(X)clouds without water, ^(Y)carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, ^[h]doubly dead, ^(Z)uprooted; ^13 (AA)wild waves of the sea, churning up ^(AB)their own shameful deeds like dirty foam; wandering stars, ^(AC)for whom the ^[i]gloom of darkness has been reserved forever.