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^(F1)(C1)Jude, a ^(C2)bond-servant of Jesus Christ and brother of ^(F2)James, To ^(C3)those who are the called, beloved in God the Father, and ^(C4)kept for Jesus Christ:

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^(C1)May mercy, peace, and love ^(C2)be multiplied to you.

^(C1)Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our ^(C2)common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you ^(C3)contend earnestly for ^(C4)the faith that was once for all time ^(C5)handed down to ^(C6)the ^(F1)saints.

For certain people have ^(C1)crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand ^(F1)(C2)marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn ^(C3)the grace of our God into ^(C4)indecent behavior and ^(C5)deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Now I want to ^(C1)remind you, though ^(C2)you know everything once and for all, that ^(F1)the Lord, ^(C3)after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, ^(F2)subsequently destroyed those who did not believe.

And ^(C1)angels who did not keep their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling place, these He has ^(C2)kept in eternal restraints under darkness for the judgment of the great day,

just as ^(C1)Sodom and Gomorrah and the ^(C2)cities around them, since they in the same way as these angels indulged in sexual perversion and ^(C3)went after ^(F1)strange flesh, are exhibited as an ^(F2)(C4)example in undergoing the ^(C5)punishment of eternal fire.

Yet in the same way these people also, dreaming, ^(C1)defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak abusively of angelic ^(F1)majesties.

But ^(C1)Michael ^(C2)the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about ^(C3)the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him an abusive judgment, but said, "^(C4)The Lord rebuke you!"

But ^(C1)these people disparage all the things that they do not understand; and ^(C2)all the things that they know by instinct, ^(C1)like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed.

Woe to them! For they have gone ^(C1)the way of Cain, and for pay ^(F1)they have given themselves up to ^(C2)the error of Balaam, and ^(C3)perished in the rebellion of Korah.