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The Book of Jude is a short letter written by Jude, the brother of James. Mary and Joseph.. It is addressed to believers in Jesus and serves as a warning against false teachers and their destructive influence within the early Christian community.
Jude begins by expressing his desire to write about the common salvation shared by believers. However, he feels compelled to address a pressing concern: the infiltration of false teachers who distort the teachings of Jesus and lead people astray.
He warns that these false teachers were once predicted by the apostles, and they should be on guard against their deceptive tactics.
Jude compares them to several historical examples of God's judgment on those who rebelled against His authority, including fallen angels, the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, and Israelites who rebelled in the wilderness.
Jude describes the false teachers as ungodly, denying Jesus Christ, and indulging in immoral behavior. They promote licentiousness , rejecting all forms of authority and perverting the grace of God into an excuse for sinful behavior.
These false teachers are criticized for speaking evil against celestial beings and undermining the authority of Jesus Christ.
Jude then reminds the brethren to build themselves up in their most holy faith, to pray in the Holy Spirit, and to keep themselves in the love of God. He encourages them to show mercy to those who doubt and to save others by snatching them from the fire of false teachings.
Jude Chapter 1:
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:
2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
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.
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.
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.
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;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophes