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The Warnings of History to the Ungodly | ||||
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| 1 Jude, a bond-servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, To those who are the called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: | 1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: | 1 From Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James. To those who have been called, who are loved by God the Father, and who are kept safe for Jesus Christ. | 1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: | 1 Jude, bondman of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the called ones beloved in God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ: | 2 May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you. | 2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. | 2 May mercy, peace, and love fill your lives! | 2 Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied. | 2 Mercy to you, and peace, and love be multiplied. | 3 Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints. | 3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. | 3 Dear friends, I had intended to write to you about the salvation we share. But something has come up. It demands that I write to you and encourage you to continue your fight for the Christian faith that was entrusted to God's holy people once for all time. | 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 saints. | 3 Beloved, using all diligence to write to you of our common salvation, I have been obliged to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints. | 4 For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. | 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. | 4 Some people have slipped in among you unnoticed. Not long ago they were condemned in writing for the following reason: They are people to whom God means nothing. They use God's kindness as an excuse for sexual freedom and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. | 4 For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ. | 4 For certain men have got in unnoticed, they who of old were marked out beforehand to this sentence, ungodly persons, turning the grace of our God into dissoluteness, and denying our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ. | 5 Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. | 5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. | 5 I want to remind you about what you already know: The Lord once saved his people from Egypt. But on another occasion he destroyed those who didn't believe. | 5 Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn't believe. | 5 But I would put you in remembrance, you who once knew all things, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, in the second place destroyed those who had not believed. | NASB | KJV | GWT | WEB | DBY |
| 6 And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day, | 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. | 6 He held angels for judgment on the great day. They were held in darkness, bound by eternal chains. These are the angels who didn't keep their position of authority but abandoned their assigned place. | 6 Angels 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. | 6 And angels who had not kept their own original state, but had abandoned their own dwelling, he keeps in eternal chains under gloomy darkness, to the judgment of the great day; | 7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire. | 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. | 7 What happened to Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities near them is an example for us of the punishment of eternal fire. The people of these cities suffered the same fate that God's people and the angels did, because they committed sexual sins and engaged in homosexual activities. | 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, 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. | 7 as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities around them, committing greedily fornication, in like manner with them, and going after other flesh, lie there as an example, undergoing the judgment of eternal fire. | 8 Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming, defile the flesh, and reject authority, and revile angelic majesties. | 8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. | 8 Yet, in a similar way, the people who slipped in among you are dreamers. They contaminate their bodies with sin, reject the Lord's authority, and insult his glory. | 8 Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings. | 8 Yet in like manner these dreamers also defile the flesh, and despise lordship, and speak railingly against dignities. | 9 But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said, "The Lord rebuke you!" | 9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. | 9 When the archangel Michael argued with the devil, they were arguing over the body of Moses. But Michael didn't dare to hand down a judgment against the devil. Instead, Michael said, "May the Lord reprimand you!" | 9 But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, "May the Lord rebuke you!" | 9 But Michael the archangel, when disputing with the devil he reasoned about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a railing judgment against him, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. | 10 But these men revile the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed. | 10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. | 10 Whatever these people don't understand, they insult. Like animals, which are creatures of instinct, they use whatever they know to destroy themselves. | 10 But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, they are destroyed in these things. | 10 But these, whatever things they know not, they speak railingly against; but what even, as the irrational animals, they understand by mere nature, in these things they corrupt themselves. | NASB | KJV | GWT | WEB | DBY |
| 11 Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and for pay they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. | 11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. | 11 How horrible it will be for them! They have followed the path of Cain. They have rushed into Balaam's error to make a profit. They have rebelled like Korah and destroyed themselves. | 11 Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah's rebellion. | 11 Woe to them! because they have gone in the way of Cain, and given themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. | 12 These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted; | 12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; | 12 These people are a disgrace at the special meals you share with other believers. They eat with you and don't feel ashamed. They are shepherds who care [only] for themselves. They are dry clouds blown around by the winds. They are withered, uprooted trees without any fruit. As a result, they have died twice. | 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; | 12 These are spots in your love-feasts, feasting together with you without fear, pasturing themselves; clouds without water, carried along by the winds; autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up; | 13 wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever. | 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. | 13 Their shame is like the foam on the wild waves of the sea. They are wandering stars for whom gloomy darkness is kept forever. | 13 wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. | 13 raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames; wandering stars, to whom has been reserved the gloom of darkness for eternity. | 14 It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones, | 14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, | 14 Furthermore, Enoch, from the seventh generation after Adam, prophesied about them. He said, "The Lord has come with countless thousands of his holy angels. | 14 About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones, | 14 And Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied also as to these, saying, Behold, the Lord has come amidst his holy myriads, | 15 to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him." | 15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. | 15 He has come to judge all these people. He has come to convict all these ungodly sinners for all the ungodly things they have done and all the harsh things they have said about him." | 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." | 15 to execute judgment against all; and to convict all the ungodly of them of all their works of ungodliness, which they have wrought ungodlily, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. | NASB | KJV | GWT | WEB | DBY |
| 16 These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; they speak arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of gaining an advantage. | 16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage. | 16 These people complain, find fault, follow their own desires, say arrogant things, and flatter people in order to take advantage of them. | 16 These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage. | 16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts; and their mouth speaks swelling words, admiring persons for the sake of profit. | Keep Yourselves in the Love of God |
| 17 But you, beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, | 17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; | 17 Dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ told you to expect: | 17 But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. | 17 But ye, beloved, remember the words spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, | 18 that they were saying to you, "In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts." | 18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. | 18 "In the last times people who ridicule [God] will appear. They will follow their own ungodly desires." | 18 They said to you that "In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts." | 18 that they said to you, that at the end of the time there should be mockers, walking after their own lusts of ungodlinesses. | 19 These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit. | 19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. | 19 These are the people who cause divisions. They are concerned about physical things, not spiritual things. | 19 These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit. | 19 These are they who set themselves apart, natural men, not having the Spirit. | 20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, | 20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, | 20 Dear friends, use your most holy faith to grow. Pray with the Holy Spirit's help. | 20 But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. | 20 But ye, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, | NASB | KJV | GWT | WEB | DBY |
| 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. | 21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. | 21 Remain in God's love as you look for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to give you eternal life. | 21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. | 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, awaiting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. | 22 And have mercy on some, who are doubting; | 22 And of some have compassion, making a difference: | 22 Show mercy to those who have doubts. | 22 On some have compassion, making a distinction, | 22 And of some have compassion, making a difference, | 23 save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh. | 23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. | 23 Save others by snatching them from the fire [of hell]. Show mercy to others, even though you are afraid that you might be stained by their sinful lives. | 23 and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh. | 23 but others save with fear, snatching them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. | 24 Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, | 24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, | 24 God can guard you so that you don't fall and so that you can be full of joy as you stand in his glorious presence without fault. | 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, | 24 But to him that is able to keep you without stumbling, and to set you with exultation blameless before his glory, | 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. | 25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. | 25 Before time began, now, and for eternity glory, majesty, power, and authority belong to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. | 25 to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen. | 25 to the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, might, and authority, from before the whole age, and now, and to all the ages. Amen. |
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