Now I want (A)to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that (B)Jesus, who saved[a] a people out of the land of Egypt, (C)afterward destroyed those who did not believe. And (D)the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day— just as (E)Sodom and Gomorrah and (F)the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and (G)pursued unnatural desire,[b] serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and (H)blaspheme the glorious ones. But when (I)the archangel (J)Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing (K)about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, (L)“The Lord rebuke you.” 10 (M)But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively.

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Footnotes

  1. Jude 1:5 Some manuscripts although you fully knew it, that the Lord who once saved
  2. Jude 1:7 Greek different flesh

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