The Warnings of History to the Ungodly

^1 [a](A)Jude, a ^(B)bond-servant of Jesus Christ and brother of ^[b]James,

To ^(C)those who are the called, beloved in God the Father, and ^(D)kept for Jesus Christ: ^2 (E)May mercy, peace, and love ^(F)be multiplied to you.

^3 (G)Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our ^(H)common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you ^(I)contend earnestly for ^(J)the faith that was once for all time ^(K)handed down to ^(L)the ^[c]saints. ⁴ For certain people have ^(M)crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand ^[d](N)marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn ^(O)the grace of our God into ^(P)indecent behavior and ^(Q)deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

⁵ Now I want to ^(R)remind you, though ^(S)you know everything once and for all, that ^[e]the Lord, ^(T)after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, ^[f]subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. ⁶ And ^(U)angels who did not keep their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling place, these He has ^(V)kept in eternal restraints under darkness for the judgment of the great day, ⁷ just as ^(W)Sodom and Gomorrah and the ^(X)cities around them, since they in the same way as these angels indulged in sexual perversion and ^(Y)went after ^[g]strange flesh, are exhibited as an ^[h](Z)example in undergoing the ^(AA)punishment of eternal fire.

⁸ Yet in the same way these people also, dreaming, ^(AB)defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak abusively of angelic ^[i]majesties. ⁹ But ^(AC)Michael ^(AD)the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about ^(AE)the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him an abusive judgment, but said, “^(AF)The Lord rebuke you!” ¹⁰ But ^(AG)these people disparage all the things that they do not understand; and ^(AH)all the things that they know by instinct, ^(AI)like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed.

¹⁹ These are the ones who cause divisions, ^[a](A)worldly-minded, ^[b]devoid of the Spirit.

^20 [a](A)The Law came in so that the offense would increase; but where sin increased, ^(B)grace abounded all the more,

¹⁴ For ^(A)sin shall not ^(B)be master over you, for ^(C)you are not under ^[a]the Law but ^(D)under grace.

⁵ For while we were ^(A)in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were ^(B)brought to light by the Law, were at work ^(C)in ^[a]the parts of our body to bear fruit for death.

⁸ But sin, ^(A)taking an opportunity ^(B)through the commandment, produced in me ^[a]coveting of every kind; for ^(C)apart ^[b]from the Law sin is dead. ⁹ I was once alive apart ^[c]from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin came to life, and I died;

⁵⁶ The sting of ^(A)death is sin, and ^(B)the power of sin is the Law;

⁶ who also made us adequate as ^(A)servants of a ^(B)new covenant, not of ^(C)the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but ^(D)the Spirit gives life.

¹¹ Woe to them! For they have gone ^(A)the way of Cain, and for pay ^[a]they have given themselves up to ^(B)the error of Balaam, and ^(C)perished in the rebellion of Korah.