1:1 Jude, a bond-servant of Yẽshua the Mẽssiah, and brother of James, to those who are the called, beloved in the Almĩghty the Fãther, and kept for Yẽshua the Mẽssiah: 2 may mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you. 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 covenant faithfulness which was once for all delivered to the holy-ones. 4 For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the lovingkindness of our Almĩghty into licentiousness and deny the only Master, even our Adõnai Yẽshua the Mẽssiah. 5 Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that Yãhweh, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not give support. 6 And messengers who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, he has kept in perpetual bonds under darkness unto 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 enduring fire. 8 Yet in the same manner these men, also by dreaming, defile the flesh, and reject authority, and revile angelic majesties.
9 But one Who-is-as-G-d, prince over angelic messengers, [when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses,]ą did [dare] not pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said, “Yãhweh rebuke you.” 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. 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. 12 These men are those 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; 13 wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved to time immemorial. [14 And about these also Enoch, (the seventh from Adam,) prophesied, saying, “Behold, Yãhweh came with many thousands of his holy ones, 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.”]ą 16 These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; they speak arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of gaining an advantage. 17 But you, beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the emissaries of our Adõnai Yẽshua the Mẽssiah, 18 that they were saying to you, “In the last time there shall be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts.” 19 These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spĩrit. 20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up with your holiest faithfulness; praying in the Holy Spĩrit; 21 keep yourselves in the love of the Almĩghty, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Adõnai Yẽshua the Mẽssiah for enduring life. 22 And have mercy on some, who are doubting; 23 save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh. 24 But to the one who is able to guard you¨ without fail, and confirm yỏu¨ in the presence of his glory blameless with great joy, 25 to thẻ only wise Almĩghty our Savior, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, even now and till onward of all the times most immemorial. Amćn.