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¹ Yehudah, a servant of Yeshua the Messiah, and brother of Ya`akov, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Yeshua the Messiah: ² Mercy to you and shalom and love be multiplied.

³ Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the holy ones. ⁴ For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even they who were of old written of beforehand to this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Yeshua the Messiah. ⁵ Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Mitzrayim, afterward destroyed those who didn't believe. ⁶ Messengers who didn't keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day. ⁷ Even as Sedom and `Amorah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

⁸ Yet in like manner these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings. ⁹ But Mikha'el, the chief angel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moshe, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, "May the Lord rebuke you!" ¹⁰ But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, in these things are they destroyed. ¹¹ Woe to them! For they went in the way of Kayin, and ran riotously in the error of Bil`am for hire, and perished in Korach's rebellion. ¹² These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; ¹³ wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. ¹⁴ To these also Hanokh, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,

¹⁵ to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him." ¹⁶ These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons for the sake of advantage. ¹⁷ But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah. ¹⁸ They said to you that "In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts." ¹⁹ These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit. ²⁰ But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Ruach HaKodesh. ²¹ Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah to eternal life. ²² On some have compassion, making a distinction, ²³ and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh. ²⁴ Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy, ²⁵ to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amein.