"We know that the person who has been born from God does not go on sinning". 1 John 5 18
Jude 1 ISV
To: Those who have been called, who are lovedb by God the Father and kept safe by Jesus, the Messiah.c
2May mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance!
3Dear friends, although I was eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I found it necessary to write to you and urge you to continue your vigorous defense of the faith that was passed down to the saints once and for all. 4For some people have slipped in among you unnoticed. They were written about long ago as being deserving of this condemnation because they are ungodly. They turn the grace of our God into uncontrollable lust and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus the Messiah.d
This is what is going on in our day. Sexual immorality (fornication, adultery, homosexuality) are being condoned and teachers are telling people who commit such sins that "they are under grace". Please notice that Jude tells us those who do so "deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus the Messiah".
Jude goes on to remind us of the danger of us departing from the truth and disobeying as some of the angels who left their position and married human women.
5Now I want to remind you, even though you are fully aware of these things, that the Lord who once saved his people from the land of Egypt later destroyed those who did not believe. 6He has also held in eternal chains those angels who did not keep their own position but abandoned their assigned place. They are held in deepest darkness for judgment on the great day.e 7Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities near them, which like them committed sexual sins and pursued homosexual activities,f serve as an example of the punishment of eternal fire.
8In a similar way, these dreamers also defile their flesh, reject the Lord’s authority,g and slander his glorious beings. 9Even the archangel Michael, when he argued with the devil and fought over the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous accusation against him. Instead, he said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”h
10Whatever these people do not understand, they slander. Like irrational animals, they are destroyed by the very things they know by instinct. 11How terrible it will be for them! For they lived like Cain didi , rushed headlong into Balaam’s error to make a profit, and destroyed themselves, as happenedj in Korah’s rebellion. 12These people are stains on your love feasts.k
- They feast with you without any sense of awe.l They are shepherds who care only for themselves. They are waterless clouds blown about by the winds. They are autumn trees that are fruitless, totallym dead, and uprooted. 13They are wild waves of the sea, churning up the foam of their own shame. They are wandering stars for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever.
“Look! The Lord has come with countless thousands of his holy ones. 15He will judge all people and convict everyone of all the ungodly things that they have done in such an ungodly way, including all the harsh things that these ungodly sinners have said about him.”n
16These people are complainers and faultfinders, following their own desires. They say arrogant things and flatter people in order to take advantage of them.
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