¹Jude, a slave of Jesus the Anointed One, and brother of James, to those called, loved in God the Father and kept in Jesus the Anointed One:

²May compassion and wholeness and love be multiplied to you.

³Beloved, using all diligence to write to you concerning our shared salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhorting you to contend earnestly for the trust once for all having been delivered to the holy ones.

⁴For certain men came in stealthily, those long ago designated unto this condemnation, ungodly ones, changing the favor of our God into sensuality and denying the only master God and our Lord Jesus the Anointed One.

⁵Now I want to remind you, you knowing everything, that the Lord, once having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those not having believed.

⁶But the messengers, both the ones not having kept their own domain and having left their own dwelling, He has kept in eternal chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day;

⁷Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, in like manner with them having indulged in sexual immorality and having gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, undergoing the penalty of eternal fire.

⁸Yet likewise also these dreaming ones indeed defile the flesh, however they set aside authority, however they blaspheme glorious ones.

⁹But Michael the archangel, when disputing with the accuser, he was reasoning about Moses' body, but did not dare to bring a judgment of blasphemy against him; he said, Would that the Lord rebuke you.

¹⁰However these denigrate as much as indeed they did not understand; however as much as they understand naturally, as the irrational animals, in these things they corrupt themselves.

¹¹Woe to them, because they went in the way of Cain, and they rushed to the error of Balaam for wage, and they perished in the rebellion of Korah.

¹²These are the reefs in your love feasts, feasting together with you fearlessly, shepherding themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumnal trees without fruit, having died twice, uprooted;

¹³wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved forever.

¹⁴Then Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied to these, saying: Behold, the Lord has come amidst myriads of His holy ones,

¹⁵to carry out judgment against all and to convict every being of theirs concerning all the works of their ungodliness in which they have been ungodly, and concerning all the harsh things that ungodly sinners spoke against Him.

¹⁶These are grumblers, discontented, following after the lusts of themselves, and their mouth speaks great swelling words, flattering faces because of profit.

¹⁷However you yourselves, beloved, remember the words which were spoken beforehand by the sent ones of our Lord Jesus the Anointed One,

¹⁸for they were saying to you that on this last time there will be scoffers, following after their own passions of ungodlinesses.

¹⁹These are those causing divisions, worldly-minded, not having the Spirit.

²⁰However you yourselves, beloved, building up yourselves in your most holy trust, praying in the Holy Spirit,

²¹keep yourselves in the love of God, awaiting the compassion of our Lord Jesus the Anointed One for eternal life.

²²And have mercy on those who indeed are doubting,

²³however others rescue, snatching from the fire, then to others show mercy with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

²⁴Now to Him being able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless in the presence of his glory with exultation —

²⁵to the only wise God our Savior, through Jesus the Anointed One our Lord, be glory and majesty, dominion and authority, before all the age and now and to all the ages, Amen.