1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, To those who have been called, who are loved in God the Father and kept for "Jesus Christ:2 Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.3 Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God's holy people.4 For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about "long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.5 Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord "at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe.6 And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling —these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day.7 In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.8 In the very same way, on the strength of their dreams these ungodly people pollute their own bodies, reject authority and heap abuse on celestial beings.9 But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not himself dare to condemn him for slander but said, "The Lord rebuke you!" [^4]10 Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct —as irrational animals do —will destroy them.11 Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed for profit into Balaam's error; they have been destroyed in Korah's rebellion.12 These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm —shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted —twice dead.13 They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.14 Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: "See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones15 to judge everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him." [^5]16 These people are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.17 But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold.18 They said to you, "In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires."19 These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit.20 But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,21 keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.22 Be merciful to those who doubt;23 save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear —hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh. [^6]24 To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy —25 to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.

1 Judas Jesu Christi servus, frater autem Jacobi, his qui sunt in Deo Patre dilectis, et Christo Jesu conservatis, et vocatis. 2 Misericordia vobis, et pax, et caritas adimpleatur.3 Carissimi, omnem sollicitudinem faciens scribendi vobis de communi vestra salute, necesse habui scribere vobis : deprecans supercertari semel tradit sanctis fidei. 4 Subintroierunt enim quidam homines (qui olim prscripti sunt in hoc judicium) impii, Dei nostri gratiam transferentes in luxuriam, et solum Dominatorem, et Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum negantes.5 Commonere autem vos volo, scientes semel omnia, quoniam Jesus populum de terra gypti salvans, secundo eos, qui non crediderunt, perdidit : 6 angelos vero, qui non servaverunt suum principatum, sed dereliquerunt suum domicilium, in judicium magni diei, vinculis ternis sub caligine reservavit. 7 Sicut Sodoma, et Gomorrha, et finitim civitates simili modo exfornicat, et abeuntes post carnem alteram, fact sunt exemplum, ignis terni pnam sustinentes. 8 Similiter et hi carnem quidem maculant, dominationem autem spernunt, majestatem autem blasphemant. 9 Cum Michal Archangelus cum diabolo disputans altercaretur de Moysi corpore, non est ausus judicium inferre blasphemi : sed dixit : Imperet tibi Dominus. 10 Hi autem qucumque quidem ignorant, blasphemant : qucumque autem naturaliter, tamquam muta animalia, norunt, in his corrumpuntur. 11 V illis, quia in via Cain abierunt, et errore Balaam mercede effusi sunt, et in contradictione Core perierunt !12 Hi sunt in epulis suis macul, convivantes sine timore, semetipsos pascentes, nubes sine aqua, qu a ventis circumferentur, arbores autumnales, infructuos, bis mortu, eradicat, 13 fluctus feri maris, despumantes suas confusiones, sidera errantia : quibus procella tenebrarum servata est in ternum. 14 Prophetavit autem et de his septimus ab Adam Enoch, dicens : Ecce venit Dominus in sanctis millibus suis 15 facere judicium contra omnes, et arguere omnes impios de omnibus operibus impietatis eorum, quibus impie egerunt, et de omnibus duris, qu locuti sunt contra Deum peccatores impii. 16 Hi sunt murmuratores querulosi, secundum desideria sua ambulantes, et os eorum loquitur superba, mirantes personas qustus causa. 17 Vos autem carissimi, memores estote verborum, qu prdicta sunt ab apostolis Domini nostri Jesu Christi, 18 qui dicebant vobis, quoniam in novissimo tempore venient illusores, secundum desideria sua ambulantes in impietatibus. 19 Hi sunt, qui segregant semetipsos, animales, Spiritum non habentes.20 Vos autem carissimi superdificantes vosmetipsos sanctissim vestr fidei, in Spiritu Sancto orantes, 21 vosmetipsos in dilectione Dei servate, exspectantes misericordiam Domini nostri Jesu Christi in vitam ternam. 22 Et hos quidem arguite judicatos : 23 illos vero salvate, de igne rapientes. Aliis autem miseremini in timore : odientes et eam, qu carnalis est, maculatam tunicam. 24 Ei autem qui potens est vos conservare sine peccato et constituere ante conspectum glori su immaculatos in exsultatione in adventu Domini nostri Jesu Christi, 25 soli Deo Salvatori nostro, per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum, gloria et magnificentia, imperium et potestas ante omne sculum, et nunc, et in omnia scula sculorum. Amen.