Jude1:4-13
I say this because some godless teachers among you, saying that after we become christians we can do just as we like without fear of God’s punishment. The fate of such people was written long ago, for they have turned against our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
V5 My answer to them is: Remember this fact-which you know already-that the Lord saved a whole nation of people out of the land of Egypt, and then killed every one of them who did not trust and obey Him. V6 And I remind you of those angels who were once pure and holy but turned to a life of sin. Now God has them chained up in prisons of darkness, waiting for the judgement day. V7 And don’t fprgetthe cities of sodom and gomorrah and their neighbouring towns, all full of lust of every kind including lust men for other men. Those cities were destroyed by fire and continue to be warning to us that there is a hell in which sinners are punished. V8 Yet these false teachers carelessly go right on living their eveil, immoral lives, degrading their bodies and laughing at those in authority over them, even scoffing at the Glorious Ones. V9 Yet Michael, one of the mightiest of the angels, when he was arguing with satan about Moses’ body, did not dare to accuse even satan or jeer at him, but simply said , “The Lord rebuke you.” V10 But these men mock and curse at anything they do not understand, and, like animals, they do whatever they feel like, thereby ruining their souls. V11 Woe upon them! For they follow the example of Cain who killed his brother; and, like ballam, they will do anything for money; and like korah, they have disobeyed God and will die under his curse. V12 When these men join you at the love feasts of the church, they are evil smears among you laughiing and carrying on, gorging and stuffing themselves without a thought for others. They are like clouds blowing over dry land wothout giving rain, promising much, but producing nothing. They are like fruits trees without any fruit at picking time. They are not only dead , but doubly dead, for they have been pulled out, roots and all, to be burned.
V13 All they leave behind them is shame and disgrace like the dirty foam left along the beach by the wild waves. They wander around looking as bright as stars, but ahead of them is the everlasting gloom and darkness that God has prepared for them.
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