Sep 25, 2022
Jude 1:4-25
4 For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long
ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who
pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only
Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. 5 Now I want to remind
you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a
people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did
not believe. 6 And 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— 7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the
surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality
and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a
punishment of eternal fire. 8 Yet in like manner these
people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject
authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones. 9 But when
the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing
about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a
blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
10 But these people blaspheme all that they do not
understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like
unreasoning animals, understand instinctively. 11 Woe to
them! For they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves
for the sake of gain to Balaam's error and perished in Korah's
rebellion. 12 These are hidden reefs at your love
feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding
themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees
in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted; 13 wild waves of
the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars,
for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.
14 It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from
Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten
thousands of His holy ones, 15 to execute judgment on
all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of
ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of
all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”
16 These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own
sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism
to gain advantage.
17 But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of
the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. 18 They said to
you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own
ungodly passions.” 19 It is these who cause divisions,
worldly people, devoid of the Spirit. 20 But you,
beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying
in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of
God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to
eternal life. 22 And have mercy on those who doubt;
23 save others by snatching them out of the fire; to
others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the
flesh.
24 Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and
to present you blameless before the presence of His glory with
great joy, 25 to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our
Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time
and now and forever. Amen.
Key Words: Remind, Destroy, Defile, Reject,
Blaspheme, Presume, Remember, Mercy
Keystone Verse: Now to Him who is able to keep you
from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of
His glory with great joy, to the only God, our Savior, through
Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority,
before all time and now and forever. Amen. (Jude 1:24-25)