Jude 1 (NET)

Jude 1:1¹From Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to those who are called, wrapped in the love of God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 1:51 Thess 5:231 Pet 2:92 Tim 1:9John 14:22John 17:15Rom 1:11 Pet 5:10Heb 3:12 Pet 1:1

Jude 1:2²May mercy, peace, and love be lavished on you!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 1:21 Pet 1:2Rev 1:4-6Rom 1:7

Jude 1:3³Dear friends, although I have been eager to write to you about our common salvation, I now feel compelled instead to write to encourage you to contend earnestly for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 6:12Phil 1:27Jude 1:202 Tim 1:13Titus 1:42 Tim 4:7-8Rev 12:11Rev 2:101 Tim 1:18Gal 2:5

Jude 1:4⁴For certain men have secretly slipped in among you —men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe —ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 2:1-3Gal 2:42 Pet 2:10Titus 1:15-161 Pet 2:161 John 2:222 Pet 2:18-221 Pet 2:82 Pet 2:5-62 Tim 3:6

Jude 1:5⁵Now I desire to remind you (even though you have been fully informed of these facts once for all ) that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, later destroyed those who did not believe.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 3:16-4:2Num 26:64-651 Cor 10:1-12Ps 106:26Num 14:22-37Deut 2:15-16

Jude 1:6⁶You also know that the angels who did not keep within their proper domain but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept in eternal chains in utter darkness, locked up for the judgment of the great Day.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 2:4Matt 25:41Eph 6:12Matt 8:292 Pet 2:9Heb 10:27Rev 20:10John 8:44

Jude 1:7⁷So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns, since they indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire in a way similar to these angels, are now displayed as an example by suffering the punishment of eternal fire.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 29:232 Pet 2:6Rom 1:26-27Gen 18:20Gen 19:24-26Gen 13:131 Cor 6:9Jer 50:40Luke 17:29Isa 1:9

Jude 1:8⁸Yet these men, as a result of their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and insult the glorious ones.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 13:172 Pet 2:10-121 Pet 2:171 Tim 1:10Exod 22:281 Cor 3:17Eccl 10:20Jude 1:9-10Num 16:3Acts 23:5

Jude 1:9⁹But even when Michael the archangel was arguing with the devil and debating with him concerning Moses’ body, he did not dare to bring a slanderous judgment, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Zech 3:22 Pet 2:11Deut 34:6Dan 12:1Rev 12:7Dan 10:21Dan 10:131 Thess 4:161 Pet 3:9Luke 23:39-40

Jude 1:10¹⁰But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 2:12Rom 1:21-22

Jude 1:11¹¹Woe to them! For they have traveled down Cain’s path, and because of greed have abandoned themselves to Balaam’s error; hence, they will certainly perish in Korah’s rebellion.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 2:151 John 3:12Rev 2:14Gen 4:3-14Heb 11:4Num 16:1-35Num 26:9-10Deut 23:4Josh 24:9-11Mic 6:5

Jude 1:12¹²These men are dangerous reefs at your love feasts, feasting without reverence, feeding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit —twice dead, uprooted;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 2:17-20Matt 15:13Ezek 34:8Eph 4:14Phil 3:19Prov 25:141 Cor 11:20-222 Pet 2:13-14John 15:4-6Luke 21:34

Jude 1:13¹³wild sea waves, spewing out the foam of their shame; wayward stars for whom the utter depths of eternal darkness have been reserved.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 2:17Phil 3:19Isa 57:20Ps 65:72 Tim 3:13Rev 14:10-11Rev 20:10Jer 5:22-23Ps 93:3-4Rev 8:10-11

Jude 1:14¹⁴Now Enoch, the seventh in descent beginning with Adam, even prophesied of them, saying, “Look! The Lord is coming with thousands and thousands of his holy ones,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 33:2Ps 50:3-52 Thess 1:7-8Heb 11:5-61 Thess 3:13Matt 16:27Matt 24:30-31Matt 25:31Gen 5:181 Chr 1:1-3

Jude 1:15¹⁵to execute judgment on all, and to convict every person of all their thoroughly ungodly deeds that they have committed, and of all the harsh words that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 4:5Eccl 11:9Rev 22:12-15Rom 14:101 Sam 2:31 Tim 1:9Acts 17:31Exod 16:8John 5:27Ps 50:1-6

Jude 1:16¹⁶These people are grumblers and fault-finders who go wherever their desires lead them, and they give bombastic speeches, enchanting folks for their own gain.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 2:18Phil 2:142 Pet 2:101 Tim 6:51 Cor 10:101 Pet 2:111 Pet 4:22 Pet 3:3Jas 1:14-15Jude 1:18

Jude 1:17¹⁷But you, dear friends—recall the predictions foretold by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 3:21 John 4:6Eph 4:11Acts 20:35Mal 4:4Eph 2:20

Jude 1:18¹⁸For they said to you, “At the end of time there will come scoffers, propelled by their own ungodly desires.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 3:32 Tim 4:32 Tim 3:1-52 Tim 3:131 Tim 4:1-22 Pet 2:1Acts 20:29Jude 1:16Ps 14:1-2

Jude 1:19¹⁹These people are divisive, worldly, devoid of the Spirit.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 2:14Prov 18:1Rom 8:9Jas 3:15Heb 10:25Hos 9:10John 3:5-6Ezek 14:7Hos 4:14Isa 65:5

Jude 1:20²⁰But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith, by praying in the Holy Spirit,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 6:18Rom 8:26-271 Cor 14:15Col 2:71 Thess 5:111 Cor 14:4-5Rom 8:151 Cor 14:26Acts 9:31Gal 4:6

Jude 1:21²¹maintain yourselves in the love of God, while anticipating the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that brings eternal life.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 4:16Heb 9:28Lam 3:25-262 Pet 3:12John 15:9-102 Thess 3:5Rev 12:11John 14:21Rom 6:23Titus 2:13-14

Jude 1:22²²And have mercy on those who waver;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 5:19-20Gal 6:11 John 5:16-18Heb 6:4-8Jude 1:4-13Ezek 34:17Gal 4:20

Jude 1:23²³save others by snatching them out of the fire; have mercy on others, coupled with a fear of God, hating even the clothes stained by the flesh.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 4:161 Cor 15:33Rev 3:42 Cor 7:10-122 Thess 3:14Rom 11:14Zech 3:2-5Rev 3:18Isa 64:61 Cor 5:3-5

Jude 1:24²⁴Now to the one who is able to keep you from falling, and to cause you to stand, rejoicing, without blemish before his glorious presence,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Tim 4:18Eph 3:20Col 1:22John 10:29-30Heb 13:20-21Eph 5:272 Cor 4:14Rom 16:25-27Rev 14:5Matt 16:27

Jude 1:25²⁵to the only God our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority, before all time, and now, and for all eternity. Amen.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 1:17Rev 5:13-14John 5:441 Pet 5:10-11Rev 4:9-11Rom 11:36Isa 12:2Ps 147:5Rev 1:6Heb 13:8