1 Jude, bondman of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the called ones beloved in God {the} Father and preserved in Jesus Christ:2 Mercy to you, and peace, and love be multiplied.3 Beloved, using all diligence to write to you of our common salvation, I have been obliged to write to you exhorting {you} to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.4 For certain men have got in unnoticed, they who of old were marked out beforehand to this sentence, ungodly {persons}, turning the grace of our God into dissoluteness, and denying our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ.5 But I would put you in remembrance, you who once knew all things, that the Lord, having saved a people out of {the} land of Egypt, in the second place destroyed those who had not believed.6 And angels who had not kept their own original state, but had abandoned their own dwelling, he keeps in eternal chains under gloomy darkness, to {the} judgment of {the} great day;7 as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities around them, committing greedily fornication, in like manner with them, and going after other flesh, lie there as an example, undergoing the judgment of eternal fire.8 Yet in like manner these dreamers also defile {the} flesh, and despise lordship, and speak railingly against dignities.9 But Michael the archangel, when disputing with the devil he reasoned about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a railing judgment against {him}, but said, {The} Lord rebuke thee.10 But these, whatever things they know not, they speak railingly against; but what even, as the irrational animals, they understand by mere nature, in these things they corrupt themselves.11 Woe to them! because they have gone in the way of Cain, and given themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.12 These are spots in your love-feasts, feasting together {with you} without fear, pasturing themselves; clouds without water, carried along by {the} winds; autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;13 raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames; wandering stars, to whom has been reserved the gloom of darkness for eternity.14 And Enoch, {the} seventh from Adam, prophesied also as to these, saying, Behold, {the} Lord has come amidst his holy myriads,15 to execute judgment against all; and to convict all the ungodly of them of all their works of ungodliness, which they have wrought ungodlily, and of all the hard {things} which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts; and their mouth speaks swelling words, admiring persons for the sake of profit.17 But *ye*, beloved, remember the words spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,18 that they said to you, that at {the} end of the time there should be mockers, walking after their own lusts of ungodlinesses.19 These are they who set {themselves} apart, natural {men}, not having {the} Spirit.20 But *ye*, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,21 keep yourselves in the love of God, awaiting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.22 And of some have compassion, making a difference,23 but others save with fear, snatching {them} out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.24 But to him that is able to keep you without stumbling, and to set {you} with exultation blameless before his glory,25 to the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, {be} glory, majesty, might, and authority, from before the whole age, and now, and to all the ages. Amen.

1 Judas, 'n dienskneg van Jesus Christus en broer van Jakobus, aan die wat geroep, in God die Vader geheilig en vir Jesus Christus bewaar is:2 Mag barmhartigheid en vrede en liefde vir julle vermenigvuldig word!3 Geliefdes, terwyl ek alle ywer aanwend om aan julle oor ons gemeenskaplike saligheid te skrywe, het ek die noodsaaklikheid gevoel om julle deur my skrywe te vermaan om kragtig te stry vir die geloof wat eenmaal aan die heiliges oorgelewer is.4 Want sekere mense het ingesluip wat lank tevore al opgeskryf is vir hierdie oordeel, goddelose mense wat die genade van onse God verander in ongebondenheid, en die enigste Heerser, God, en onse Here Jesus Christus verloën.5 Maar ek wil julle daaraan herinner, al weet julle dit nou eenmaal, dat die Here, nadat Hy die volk uit Egipteland gered het, daarna die wat ongelowig was, omgebring het.6 En die engele wat hul eie beginsel nie bewaar het nie, maar hul eie woning verlaat het, het Hy vir die oordeel van die groot dag met ewige boeie onder die duisternis bewaar;7 soos Sodom en Gomorra en die stede rondom hulle, wat op dieselfde manier as hierdie mense gehoereer en agter vreemde vlees aangeloop het, as 'n voorbeeld gestel is, terwyl hulle die straf van die ewige vuur ondergaan.8 Tog besoedel ook hierdie mense net so in hulle dromerye die vlees en verag die heerskappy en laster die heerlike wesens.9 Maar toe M¡gael, die aartsengel, met die duiwel in woordestryd was oor die liggaam van Moses, het hy geen oordeel van lastering durf uitspreek nie, maar het gesê: Die Here bestraf jou!10 Maar hierdie mense belaster alles wat hulle nie ken nie; en alles wat hulle, soos die redelose diere, op natuurlike wyse verstaan, daardeur gaan hulle te gronde.11 Wee hulle, want hulle het die weg van Kain bewandel en om loon hulleself in die verleiding van B¡leam gestort en in die verset van Korag omgekom.12 Hulle is skandvlekke in julle liefdemaaltye, wat sonder vrees saam fees hou en hulleself voer, waterlose wolke deur winde rondgedrywe, bome in die nasomer, wat sonder vrugte is, twee maal gestorwe, ontworteld;13 woeste golwe van die see wat hulle eie skandes laat opskuim, dwaalsterre vir wie die donkerheid van die duisternis vir ewig bewaar word.14 En Henog, die sewende van Adam af, het ook teen hulle geprofeteer en gesê: Kyk, die Here het gekom met sy heilige tien duisendtalle,15 om gerig te hou oor almal en al die goddelose mense onder hulle te straf oor al hulle goddelose werke wat hulle goddelooslik gedoen het, en oor al die harde woorde wat die goddelose sondaars teen Hom gespreek het.16 Hulle is murmureerders wat oor hul lot klae, en volgens hulle begeerlikhede wandel; en hulle mond spreek trotse woorde, terwyl hulle mense vlei ter wille van voordeel.17 Maar julle, geliefdes, moet die woorde onthou wat tevore gespreek is deur die apostels van onse Here Jesus Christus,18 dat hulle vir julle gesê het: In die laaste tyd sal daar spotters wees wat volgens hul eie goddelose begeerlikhede wandel.19 Dit is hulle wat skeuring maak, sinnelike mense wat die Gees nie het nie.20 Maar julle, geliefdes, moet julleself opbou in jul allerheiligste geloof en in die Heilige Gees bid21 en julleself in die liefde van God bewaar, terwyl julle die barmhartigheid van onse Here Jesus Christus tot die ewige lewe verwag.22 En aan sommige wat twyfel, moet julle barmhartigheid bewys;23 maar ander moet julle met vrees red deur hulle uit die vuur te ruk; en ook die kleed moet julle haat wat deur sonde bevlek is.24 Aan Hom nou wat magtig is om julle van struikeling te bewaar en julle sonder gebrek voor sy heerlikheid te stel met gejuig,25 aan die alleenwyse God, ons Verlosser, kom toe heerlikheid en majesteit, krag en mag, nou en tot in alle ewigheid! Amen.