Jude 1-11

Christian Standard Bible

Greeting

¹ Jude,^(A) a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James:

To those who are the called,^(B) loved^[a](C) by God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ.^(D)

² May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.^(E)

Jude’s Purpose in Writing

³ Dear friends, although I was eager to write you about the salvation we share,^(F) I found it necessary to write, appealing to you to contend for the faith^(G) that was delivered^(H) to the saints once for all. ⁴ For some people, who were designated for this judgment long ago,^[b](I) have come in by stealth;^(J) they are ungodly,^(K) turning the grace of our God into sensuality and denying^(L) Jesus Christ, our only Master and Lord.

Apostates: Past and Present

⁵ Now I want to remind you, although you came to know all these things once and for all, that Jesus^[c] saved a people out of Egypt and later destroyed those who did not believe;^{(M) 6} and the angels^(N) who did not keep their own position but abandoned their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deep darkness for the judgment on the great day. ⁷ Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah^(O) and the surrounding towns committed sexual immorality and perversions,^[d] and serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.^(P)

⁸ In the same way these people—relying on their dreams—defile their flesh, reject authority, and slander glorious ones.^{(Q) 9} Yet when Michael^(R) the archangel^(S) was disputing with the devil^(T) in an argument about Moses’s^(U) body, he did not dare utter a slanderous condemnation against him but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” ¹⁰ But these people blaspheme anything they do not understand. And what they do understand by instinct—like irrational animals—by these things they are destroyed. ¹¹ Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain,^(V) have plunged into Balaam’s error^(W) for profit, and have perished in Korah’s rebellion.^(X)