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[2] May [[mercy]], peace, and love be multiplied to you.
[2] May [[mercy]], peace, and love be multiplied to you.
[3] Be[[love]]d, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the [[faith]] which was once for all delivered to the saints.
[3] <u>Be[[love]]d, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the [[faith]] which was once for all delivered to the saints.</u>
[4] For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the [[grace]] of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
[4] For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly persons who pervert the [[grace]] of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
[5] Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
[5] Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
[6] And the [[angel]]s that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day;
[6] <u>And the [[angel]]s that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day; </u>
[7] just as [[Sodom]] and [[Gomor'rah]] and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
[7] just as [[Sodom]] and [[Gomor'rah]] and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
[8] Yet in like [[manner]] these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject [[authority]], and revile the glorious ones.
[8] Yet in like [[manner]] these men in their dreamings defile the flesh, reject [[authority]], and revile the glorious ones.
[9] But when the [[archangel]] [[Michael]], contending with the devil, disputed about the [[body]] of [[Moses]], he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, "The Lord rebuke you."
[9] <u>But when the [[archangel]] [[Michael]], contending with the devil, disputed about the [[body]] of [[Moses]], he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, "The Lord rebuke you." </u>
[10] But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those [[things]] that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
[10] But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those [[things]] that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.
[11] Woe to them! For they walk in the way of [[Cain]], and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to [[Balaam]]'s error, and perish in Korah's rebellion.
[11] Woe to them! For they walk in the way of [[Cain]], and abandon themselves for the sake of gain to [[Balaam]]'s error, and perish in Korah's rebellion.
[22] And convince some, who doubt;
[22] And convince some, who doubt;
[23] save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
[23] save some, by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
[24] Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the [[presence]] of his glory with rejoicing,
[24] <u>Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the [[presence]] of his glory with rejoicing,</u>
[25] to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all [[time]] and now and for ever. Amen.
[25] to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all [[time]] and now and for ever. Amen.
[[Category: Christian Bible]]
[[Category: Christian Bible]]